NevadaSB34883rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET

AN ACT relating to health care; establishing a fee the State Public Health Laboratory is authorized to charge for certain examinations and tests for the discovery of certain diseases in infants; removing a requirement that the State Public Health Laboratory hold a public hearing under certain circumstances; requiring Medicaid to reimburse such examinations and tests separately from reimbursement for other labor and delivery services and newborn care; requiring the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to request the establishment of a certain rate of reimbursement for such examinations and tests; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Julie Pazina (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

BDR 40-123

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2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Separate Medicaid payment for newborn screening

Beginning July 1, 2025, Medicaid pays for newborn screening tests as a separate payment, not bundled with birth or newborn care. Medicaid’s payment cannot be more than $150 per infant and only applies when federal matching funds are available. The state must seek federal approval and first request a rate up to $122 that cannot start before July 1, 2025. Any higher rate cannot start before Jan 1, 2026.

Fees and caps for newborn screening

From July 1, 2025 through Dec 31, 2025, the state lab cannot charge more than $122 per infant for required newborn screening tests. Starting Jan 1, 2026, the lab can charge up to $150 per infant, but not more than the Medicaid rate if that is lower. These limits apply per specimen for tests required by state law.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Julie Pazina

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Carrie Ann Buck

    Republican • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 51 • No: 10

House vote • 5/31/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (3rd Reprint)

Yes: 35 • No: 5

Senate vote • 4/21/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 16 • No: 5

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 386.

    6/6/2025legislature
  2. Approved by the Governor.

    6/6/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    6/4/2025legislature
  4. Assembly Amendment Nos. 597 and 896 concurred in. To enrollment.

    6/1/2025Senate
  5. In Senate.

    6/1/2025Senate
  6. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 35, Nays: 5, Excused: 2.) To Senate.

    5/31/2025House
  7. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Third reprint.

    5/31/2025House
  8. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 896.) To printer.

    5/30/2025House
  9. Placed on General File.

    5/30/2025House
  10. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/30/2025House
  11. To committee.

    5/22/2025House
  12. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.

    5/22/2025House
  13. Notice of exemption.

    5/21/2025House
  14. To printer.

    5/20/2025House
  15. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means.

    5/20/2025House
  16. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 597.)

    5/20/2025House
  17. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/19/2025House
  18. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To committee.

    4/24/2025House
  19. In Assembly.

    4/24/2025House
  20. To Assembly.

    4/23/2025Senate
  21. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/23/2025Senate
  22. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 16, Nays: 5.) To printer.

    4/21/2025Senate
  23. Reprinting dispensed with.

    4/18/2025Senate
  24. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 221.)

    4/18/2025Senate
  25. Placed on Second Reading File.

    4/18/2025Senate

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