AB 202 Nevada Assembly · 2025 Regular Session

Revises provisions relating to claims for dental care. (BDR 57-573)

AB 202 updates Nevada's dental insurance rules by requiring insurance companies to include standalone dental policies in their complaint resolution and external review systems - previously exempt from these processes. It allows dentists to make coverage decisions for their patients, submit external review requests when claims are denied, and have their recommendations considered in reviews. This directly affects dental patients, dentists, and insurers offering only dental coverage. The bill ensures dental claims follow the same review pathways as medical claims, requiring insurers to notify dentists and consider their documentation during appeals.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

Assembly Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

May 2025

Signed into Law

May 2025

Introduced Feb 3, 2025 Signed May 26, 2025

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Reprint 1 → As Enrolled · 5 edits · May 26, 2025

MODERATE

This bill expands Nevada's health insurance protections to include dentists, ensuring they have the same rights and responsibilities as physicians in the appeals process. Previously, only doctors could trigger external reviews for denied care; now dentists can do the same for dental procedures.

Scope change

The bill extends the applicability of managed care complaint procedures and external review rights to policies and certificates that provide only dental coverage, which were previously exempt from these requirements.

ELIGIBILITY

Dentists are now authorized to submit requests for external reviews of adverse determinations regarding dental care, a right previously reserved for physicians.

REQUIREMENT

Independent review organizations must now notify dentists of a covered person and forward information received from them, just as they do for physicians.

Decisions by independent review organizations must now include any recommendations made by the insured's dentist as part of the documentary evidence.

DEFINITION

The definition of 'clinical peer' was revised to include dentists, ensuring they are treated equally to physicians during external review processes.

SCOPE

The requirement for insurers to establish complaint resolution systems and provide external reviews now applies to policies providing only dental coverage, whereas these were previously exempt.

Floor votes · Assembly Apr 22, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

May 26, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by the Governor.

executive

May 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

In Assembly. To enrollment.

lower

May 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.

upper

May 15, 2025

Upper · Passed

From committee: Do pass.

upper

Apr 22, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To printer.

lower

Apr 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 42.) Dispensed with reprinting.

lower

Feb 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. To committee.

lower

Feb 3, 2025

Committee

Prefiled. Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors