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NV Rev Stat § 449.470 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449 - Medical Facilities and Other Related Entities|NRS 449.470 - Director may use staff or contract for services.

In carrying out the duties prescribed by NRS 449.450 to 449.530, inclusive, the Director may utilize his or her own staff or may contract with any appropriate, independent and qualified organization. Such a contractor shall not release or publish or otherwise use any information made available to it under its contractual responsibility unless permission is specifically granted by the Director.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 703; A 1985, 1363)
NV Rev Stat § 449.476 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449 - Medical Facilities and Other Related Entities|NRS 449.476 - Committee to ensure quality of care: Formation by hospital; general requirements.

  1. Each hospital licensed to operate in this state shall form a committee to ensure the quality of care provided by the hospital. The committee must be composed of, but is not limited to, physicians and nurses.  2. Each committee formed pursuant to subsection 1 must meet the requirements for programs or plans for ensuring the quality of care specified by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations or by the Federal Government pursuant to Title XIX of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 1396 et seq.).  (Added to NRS by 1989, 1799)
NV Rev Stat § 449.485 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449 - Medical Facilities and Other Related Entities|NRS 449.485 - Hospital required to use discharge form prescribed by Director; electronic monthly reporting; exception to electronic reporting; use of information by Department.

  1. Each hospital in this State shall use for all patients discharged a form prescribed by the Director and shall include in the form all information required by the Department. Any form prescribed by the Director must be a form that is commonly used nationwide by hospitals, if applicable, and comply with federal laws and regulations.  2. Each hospital in this State shall, on a monthly basis, report to the Department the information required to be included in the form for each patient. The information reported must be complete, accurate and timely.  3. Each insurance company or other payer shall accept the form as the bill for services provided by hospitals in this State.  4. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, each hospital in this State shall provide the information required pursuant to subsection 2 in an electronic form specified by the Department.  5. The Director may exempt a hospital from the requirements of subsection 4 if requiring the hospital to comply with the requirements would cause the hospital financial hardship.  6. The Department shall use the information submitted pursuant to this section for the program established pursuant to NRS 439A.220 to increase public awareness of health care information concerning the hospitals in this State.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 875; A 2005, 1736; 2007, 661, 2355)
NV Rev Stat § 449.500 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449 - Medical Facilities and Other Related Entities|NRS 449.500 - Director to carry out analyses and studies concerning cost of health care.

The Director shall engage in or carry out analyses and studies relating to the cost of health care in Nevada and other states, the financial status of any institution subject to the provisions of NRS 449.450 to 449.530, inclusive, and any other appropriate related matters, and the Director may publish and disseminate any information relating to the financial aspects of health care as the Director deems desirable in the public interest and in accordance with the provisions of NRS 449.450 to 449.530, inclusive. The Director shall further require the filing of information concerning the total financial needs of each institution and the resources available or expected to become available to meet such needs, including but not limited to the effect of proposals made by comprehensive areawide and state health planning agencies. The information must be divided into at least the following components of an institution’s expenses:  1. Operating expenses related to patient care.  2. Expenses incurred for rendering services to patients for whom payment is not made in full including, but not limited to, the separate expenses for contractual allowances imposed by federal or state law, charity care and uncollectible accounts.  3. All incurred interest charges on indebtedness for both capital and operating needs.  4. Costs of education, both primary and continuing.  5. Expenses for research related to patient care.  6. Depreciation expenses of both property and equipment.  7. Amortization of incurred capital and operating related indebtedness.  8. Requirements for capital expenditures for replacement, modernization, renovation and expansion of services and facilities.  9. Requirements for necessary working capital, including but not limited to operating cash, patients’ accounts receivable and inventories.  10. Federal, state and local taxes not ordinarily considered operating expenses where applicable.  11. Operating surpluses necessary for a fair return to their owners equal to returns on investments in industries of comparable risk, or for the purpose of assuring continuity of operation and prudent management.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 703; A 1985, 1364)
NV Rev Stat § 449.510 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449 - Medical Facilities and Other Related Entities|NRS 449.510 - Director to prepare and file summaries, compilations or other reports; public inspection; collection, maintenance, disclosure or publication of contracts or identification of party to contract prohibited.

  1. The Director shall prepare and file such summaries, compilations or other supplementary reports based on the information filed with the Director pursuant to NRS 449.450 to 449.530, inclusive, as will advance the purposes of those sections. All such summaries, compilations and reports are open to public inspection, must be made available to requesting agencies and must be prepared within a reasonable time following the end of each institution’s fiscal year or more frequently as specified by the Director.   2. The Director shall not collect, maintain, disclose, report or publish the details of contracts entered into by a hospital, or collect, maintain, disclose, report or publish information pursuant to this section in a manner that would allow identification of an individual payer or other party to a contract with the hospital, except that the Director may disclose to other state agencies the details of contracts between the hospital and a related entity. A state agency shall not collect, maintain, disclose, report or publish information disclosed to the agency by the Director pursuant to this subsection in a manner that would allow identification of an individual payer or other party to a contract with the hospital. The Director may review any such contracts at the hospital or at a location specified by the hospital.  3. As used in this section, "related entity" means an affiliated person or subsidiary as those terms are defined in NRS 439B.430.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 704; A 1985, 1365; 1991, 2333; 1993, 619; 1997, 2527)
NV Rev Stat § 449.520 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449 - Medical Facilities and Other Related Entities|NRS 449.520 - Reports to Governor and legislative committees; development of comprehensive plan by Legislative Committee on Health Care.

  1. On or before October 1 of each year, the Director shall prepare and transmit to the Governor, the Legislative Committee on Health Care and the Interim Finance Committee a report of the Department’s operations and activities for the preceding fiscal year.  2. The report prepared pursuant to subsection 1 must include:  (a) Copies of all reports, summaries, compilations and supplementary reports required by NRS 449.450 to 449.530, inclusive, together with such facts, suggestions and policy recommendations as the Director deems necessary;  (b) A summary of the trends of the audits of hospitals in this State that the Department required or performed during the previous year;  (c) An analysis of the trends in the costs, expenses and profits of hospitals in this State;  (d) An analysis of the methodologies used to determine the corporate home office allocation of hospitals in this State;  (e) An examination and analysis of the manner in which hospitals are reporting the information that is required to be filed pursuant to NRS 449.490, including, without limitation, an examination and analysis of whether that information is being reported in a standard and consistent manner, which fairly reflect the operations of each hospital;  (f) A review and comparison of the policies and procedures used by hospitals in this State to provide discounted services to, and to reduce charges for services provided to, persons without health insurance;  (g) A review and comparison of the policies and procedures used by hospitals in this State to collect unpaid charges for services provided by the hospitals; and  (h) A summary of the status of the programs established pursuant to NRS 439A.220 and 439A.240 to increase public awareness of health care information concerning the hospitals and surgical centers for ambulatory patients in this State, including, without limitation, the information that was posted in the preceding fiscal year on the Internet website maintained for those programs pursuant to NRS 439A.270.  3. The Legislative Committee on Health Care shall develop a comprehensive plan concerning the provision of health care in this State which includes, without limitation:  (a) A review of the health care needs in this State as identified by state agencies, local governments, providers of health care and the general public; and  (b) A review of the capital improvement reports submitted by hospitals pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 449.490.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 704; A 1983, 1127; 1985, 1365; 2005, 1738; 2007, 2357; 2011, 969)
NV Rev Stat § 449.530 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449 - Medical Facilities and Other Related Entities|NRS 449.530 - Administrative fine for violation.

The Director may impose upon the institutions subject to supervision under NRS 449.450 to 449.530, inclusive, an administrative fine not exceeding $500 per day for each violation of any of the provisions of NRS 449.450 to 449.530, inclusive.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 704; A 1985, 1365)
NV Rev Stat § 449.531 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449 - Medical Facilities and Other Related Entities|NRS 449.531 - Unlawful acts; exception; penalty.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person shall not intentionally prevent another person from entering or exiting the office of a physician, a health facility, a nonprofit health facility, a public health center, a medical facility or a facility for the dependent by physically:  (a) Detaining the other person; or  (b) Obstructing, impeding or hindering the other person’s movement.  2. The provisions of subsection 1 are inapplicable to:  (a) An officer, employee or agent of the physician, health facility, nonprofit health facility, public health center, medical facility or facility for the dependent; or  (b) A peace officer as defined in NRS 169.125,  while acting within the course and scope of his or her duties or employment.  3. The provisions of subsection 1 do not prohibit a person from maintaining a picket during a strike or work stoppage in compliance with the provisions of NRS 614.160, or from engaging in any constitutionally protected exercise of free speech.  4. A person who violates the provisions of subsection 1 is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 3 months, or by both fine and imprisonment.  5. As used in this section, the terms "health facility," "nonprofit health facility" and "public health center" have the meanings ascribed to them in NRS 449.260.  (Added to NRS by 1991, 1687) — (Substituted in revision for NRS 449.760)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.001 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.001 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 449A.003 to 449A.081, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1278; A 1975, 366, 897; 1977, 641; 1979, 160, 1113; 1983, 1657; 1985, 1736; 1989, 304, 1034, 1037; 1993, 2556; 1995, 1600; 1999, 248, 970; 2001, 1341, 2518; 2005, 485, 532, 1379, 1517, 2165, 2350; 2011, 1337; 2013, 3055; 2015, 2160, 2172; 2017, 1409, 1570) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.001)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.003 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.003 - "Agency to provide nursing in the home" defined.

  1. "Agency to provide nursing in the home" means any person or governmental organization which provides in the home, through its employees or by contractual arrangement with other persons, skilled nursing and assistance and training in health and housekeeping skills.  2. The term does not include:  (a) A provider of community-based living arrangement services during any period in which the provider of community-based living arrangement services is engaged in providing community-based living arrangement services; or  (b) A provider of supported living arrangement services during any period in which the provider of supported living arrangement services is engaged in providing supported living arrangement services.  (Added to NRS by 1979, 160; A 1985, 1737; 2005, 1379; 2017, 1409) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0015)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.005 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.005 - "Agency to provide personal care services in the home" defined.

  1. "Agency to provide personal care services in the home" means any person, other than a natural person, which provides in the home the services authorized pursuant to NRS 449.1935 to elderly persons or persons with disabilities.  2. The term does not include:  (a) An independent contractor who provides nonmedical services specified in NRS 449.1935 without the assistance of employees;  (b) An organized group of persons composed of the family or friends of a person needing personal care services that employs or contracts with persons to provide nonmedical services specified in NRS 449.1935 for the person if:  (1) The organization of the group of persons is set forth in a written document that is made available for review by the Division upon request; and  (2) The personal care services are provided to only one person or one family who resides in the same residence;  (c) An intermediary service organization; or  (d) A person or agency that contracts with the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Health and Human Services to provide temporary respite services.  3. As used in this section:  (a) "Intermediary service organization" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.4304.  (b) "Temporary respite services" means services provided through a contract with the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Health and Human Services to a natural person on a periodic basis to provide a respite for a regular provider of services.  (Added to NRS by 2005, 2164; A 2007, 1225; 2009, 2399; 2013, 134; 2017, 1410) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0021)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.007 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.007 - "Board" defined.

Board means the State Board of Health.  (Added to NRS by 1985, 1735) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0025)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.009 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.009 - "Community-based living arrangement services" defined. [Effective through December 31, 2019.]

Community-based living arrangement services has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 433.605.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 1409) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0026)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.009 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.009 - "Community-based living arrangement services" defined. [Effective January 1, 2020.]

Community-based living arrangement services has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0026.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 1409; A 2019, 250, effective January 1, 2020)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.011 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.011 - Community health worker" defined.

Community health worker means a natural person who:  1. Lives in or otherwise has a connection to the community in which he or she provides services.  2. Is trained by a provider of health care to provide certain services which do not require the community health worker to be licensed.  3. Provides services at the direction of a facility for the dependent, medical facility or provider of health care which may include, without limitation, outreach and the coordination of health care.  (Added to NRS by 2015, 2172) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0027)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.013 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.013 - Community health worker pool" defined.

Community health worker pool means a person or agency which provides, for compensation and through its employees or by contract with community health workers, the services of community health workers to any natural person, medical facility or facility for the dependent. The term does not include an independent contractor who personally provides the services of a community health worker or a facility for the dependent or any medical facility other than a community health worker pool which provides the services of a community health worker.  (Added to NRS by 2015, 2172) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0028)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.015 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.015 - "Community triage center" defined.

Community triage center means a facility that provides on a 24-hour basis medical assessments of and short-term monitoring services for persons with mental illness and persons with alcohol or other substance use disorders in a manner which does not require that the assessments and services be provided in a licensed hospital.  (Added to NRS by 2005, 532) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0031)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.017 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.017 - "Division" defined.

Division means the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services.  (Added to NRS by 2013, 3055) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0032)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.019 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.019 - "Facility for hospice care" defined.

Facility for hospice care means a facility which is operated to provide hospice care.  (Added to NRS by 1999, 248) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0033)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.021 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.021 - "Facility for intermediate care" defined.

Facility for intermediate care means an establishment operated and maintained to provide 24-hour personal and medical supervision, for a person who does not have illness, disease, injury or other condition that would require the degree of care and treatment which a hospital or facility for skilled nursing is designed to provide.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1279; A 1985, 1737; 1991, 1974) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0038)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.023 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.023 - "Facility for modified medical detoxification" defined.

Facility for modified medical detoxification means a facility that provides 24-hour medical monitoring of treatment and detoxification in a manner which does not require that the service be provided in a licensed hospital.  (Added to NRS by 1999, 969) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.00385)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.025 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.025 - "Facility for refractive surgery" defined.

  1. "Facility for refractive surgery" means a freestanding facility that provides limited medical services relating to surgical treatments for patients with refractive errors of the eye, including the preoperative care and evaluation of those patients, the surgical treatment of those patients and the postoperative care and evaluation of those patients.  2. As used in this section:  (a) "Postoperative care" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.24892.  (b) "Preoperative care" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.24893.  (Added to NRS by 2001, 1339; A 2005, 2693; 2009, 452) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.00387)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.027 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.027 - "Facility for skilled nursing" defined.

  1. "Facility for skilled nursing" means an establishment which provides continuous skilled nursing and related care as prescribed by a physician to a patient in the facility who is not in an acute episode of illness and whose primary need is the availability of such care on a continuous basis.  2. "Facility for skilled nursing" does not include a facility which meets the requirements of a general or any other special hospital.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1279; A 1985, 1738) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0039)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.029 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.029 - "Facility for the care of adults during the day" defined.

Facility for the care of adults during the day means an establishment operated and maintained to provide care during the day on a temporary or permanent basis for aged or infirm persons. The term does not include a halfway house for persons recovering from alcohol or other substance use disorders.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 1657; A 1985, 1736; 2001, 2518) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.004)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.031 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.031 - "Facility for the dependent" defined. [Effective through December 31, 2019.]

Facility for the dependent includes:  1. A facility for the treatment of alcohol or other substance use disorders;  2. A halfway house for persons recovering from alcohol or other substance use disorders;  3. A facility for the care of adults during the day;  4. A residential facility for groups;  5. An agency to provide personal care services in the home;  6. A facility for transitional living for released offenders;  7. A home for individual residential care;  8. A peer support recovery organization; and  9. A community health worker pool.  (Added to NRS by 1985, 1735; A 2001, 2518; 2005, 2165, 2350; 2011, 356; 2015, 2160, 2172) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 449.0045)
NV Rev Stat § 449A.031 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients|NRS 449A.031 - "Facility for the dependent" defined. [Effective January 1, 2020.]

Facility for the dependent has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0045.  (Added to NRS by 1985, 1735; A 2001, 2518; 2005, 2165, 2350; 2011, 356; 2015, 2160, 2172; 2019, 250, effective January 1, 2020)