Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB463: Revises provisions relating to prior authorization. (BDR 57-825)
Status: Chaptered, June 11, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to insurance; requiring certain health insurers to respond to requests for prior authorization for medical or dental care within a certain amount of time; prohibiting certain insurers from requiring prior authorization for certain types of medical care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law authorizes certain health insurers to require prior authorization before an insured may receive coverage for medical and dental care in certain circumstances…
From the enrolled text, June 4, 2025:
AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring certain health insurers to respond to requests for prior authorization for medical or dental care within a certain amount of time; prohibiting certain insurers from requiring prior authorization for certain types of medical care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law authorizes certain health insurers to require prior authorization before an insured may receive coverage for medical and dental care in certain circumstances. If an insurer requires prior authorization, existing law requires the insurer to: (1) file its procedure for obtaining prior authorization with the Commissioner of Insurance for approval; and (2) respond to a request for prior authorization within 20 days after receiving the request. (NRS 687B.225) Sections 27 and 45 of this bill require private insurers and insurers providing coverage for recipients of Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, respectively, to respond to a request for prior authorization within 2 business days after receiving the request, unless certain nationally recognized operating rules governing prior authorization would allow the insurer to have additional time to respond to the particular request. In such a case, sections 27 and 45 authorize an insurer to respond to the request within the period of time prescribed by the operating rules, unless doing so would result in the insurer responding to the …
Sponsors
- Shea Backus (D, 37) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Chapter 475.
- : Approved by the Governor.
- : Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
- : In Assembly. To enrollment.
- : Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Assembly.
- : Read second time.
- : From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. To Senate. In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee. From committee: Do pass.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 866.) Dispensed with reprinting. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To printer.
- : From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 480.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.
Votes
- Senate (2nd Reprint) (June 2, 2025): 20 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Assembly (1st Reprint) (May 30, 2025): 42 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is AB463?
- AB463 is a bill in the Nevada Legislature (83rd Legislature (2025)): Revises provisions relating to prior authorization. (BDR 57-825).
- What does AB463 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to insurance; requiring certain health insurers to respond to requests for prior authorization for medical or dental care within a certain amount of time; prohibiting certain insurers from requiring prior authorization for certain types of medical care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law authorizes certain health insurers to require prior authorization before an insured may receive coverage for medical and dental care in certain circumstances…
- What is the status of AB463?
- Chaptered as of June 11, 2025. Latest action: Chapter 475. (June 11, 2025).
- Who sponsored AB463?
- Shea Backus (D, 37).
- Where is the official record for AB463?
- On the Nevada Legislature website: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12708/Overview
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