AB169

Existing law requires public and private policies of health insurance and health plans regulated under Nevada law to include certain coverage. (NRS 287.010, 287.04335, 422.27172-422.272428, 689A.04033-689A.0465, 689B.0303-689B.0379, 689C.1652-689C.169, 689C.194, 689C.1945, 689C.195, 689C.425, 695A.184-695A.1875, 695A.265, 695B.1901-695B.1948, 695C.050, 695C.1691-695C.176, 695G.162-695G.177) Existing law also requires employers to provide certain benefits for health care to employees, including the coverage required of health insurers, if the employer provides health benefits for its employees. (NRS 608.1555) Sections 2.3 and 4.3 of this bill provide that certain provisions requiring a policy of individual or group health insurance to include certain coverage are inapplicable to a policy that only provides coverage for a specified disease or illness or that only provides a limited benefit. Sections 2.7, 4.7-10, 12, 12.5, 14 and 16 of this bill require that certain public and private policies of health insurance and health plans, including Medicaid but excluding the Public Employees' Benefits Program, include coverage for habilitative and rehabilitative speech-language pathology as a treatment for stuttering for persons who are less than 26 years of age. Sections 1, 2.7, 4.7-10, 12, 14 and 16 of this bill additionally prohibit an insurer from imposing a maximum annual limit on the coverage, limiting coverage based on the cause of the stuttering or imposing medical managemen