Senate Bill No. 53–Committee on Commerce and Labor

Prefiled January 28, 1999

(On Behalf of Legislative Committee on Workers’ Compensation)

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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

SUMMARY—Specifies information administrator of division of industrial relations of department of business and industry can require certain insurers to provide on claims the insurers process. (BDR 53-696)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

 

AN ACT relating to the division of industrial relations of department of business and industry; specifying the information that the administrator of the division can require insurers who provide industrial insurance to provide on claims those insurers process; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

1-1 Section 1. Chapter 616B of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto

1-2 a new section to read as follows:

1-3 1. Except as otherwise provided by any provision that authorizes the

1-4 administrator to receive specific notification or requires him to collect

1-5 specific information from insurers, the administrator may require an

1-6 insurer to submit, on each claim the insurer processes, only:

1-7 (a) The first name, last name, middle initial, date of birth and social

1-8 security number of the injured employee;

1-9 (b) The name, phone number and tax identification number of the

1-10 employer of the injured employee;

1-11 (c) If the employer of the injured employee is a member of an

1-12 association of self-insured public or private employers, the name and tax

1-13 identification number of that association;

1-14 (d) The name and tax identification number of the insurer;

2-1 (e) Whether the insurer is a private carrier, an association of self-

2-2 insured public or private employers, a self-insured employer or the

2-3 system;

2-4 (f) The date upon which the employer’s policy of industrial insurance

2-5 that covers the claim became effective and the date upon which it will

2-6 expire or must be renewed;

2-7 (g) The number assigned to the claim by the insurer;

2-8 (h) The date of the injury or of the sustaining of the occupational

2-9 disease;

2-10 (i) The part of the body that was injured or the occupational disease

2-11 that was sustained by the injured employee;

2-12 (j) The percentage of disability as determined by the rating physician

2-13 or chiropractor;

2-14 (k) Whether the claim concerns accident benefits or compensation for

2-15 a disability, or both;

2-16 (l) Which part of the body was permanently impaired, if any;

2-17 (m) What type of accident or occupational disease is the subject of the

2-18 claim;

2-19 (n) The date, if any, that the claim was closed; and

2-20 (o) If the claim has been closed, whether the closure was:

2-21 (1) Automatic pursuant to the provisions of subsection 2 of NRS

2-22 616C.235; or

2-23 (2) Pursuant to the provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 616C.235,

2-24 and what type of compensation was provided for the claim.

2-25 2. The administrator may:

2-26 (a) Develop a list of codes to correspond to the information that may

2-27 be reported pursuant to paragraphs (e), (k), (l), (m) and (o) of subsection

2-28 1; and

2-29 (b) Require that the codes be used to report the information specified

2-30 in paragraphs (e), (k), (l), (m) and (o) of subsection 1.

2-31 3. Any information that the administrator requires to be submitted

2-32 pursuant to subsection 1 must be required:

2-33 (a) Of each insurer; and

2-34 (b) By the same deadline.

2-35 The administrator may not require an insurer to submit more or different

2-36 information than another insurer.

2-37 4. The provisions of this section must not be construed to prevent the

2-38 administrator from:

2-39 (a) Conducting audits pursuant to the provisions of NRS 616B.003

2-40 and collecting information from such audits; or

2-41 (b) Receiving and collecting information from the reports that

2-42 insurers must submit to the administrator pursuant to the provisions of

2-43 NRS 616B.009.

3-1 5. As used in this section, the term "tax identification number"

3-2 means the number assigned by the Internal Revenue Service of the

3-3 United States Department of the Treasury for identification.

3-4 Sec. 2. This act becomes effective on July 1, 1999.

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