Title 40

NRS 449.134 Facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, residential facility for groups, provider of community-based living arrangement services, provider of rehabilitative residential mental health care or home for individual residential care to provide immedia…

NRS 449.141 Definitions. As used in NRS 449.141 to 449.147, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 449.142 and 449.143 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2025, 1066)

NRS 449.142 “Health facility” defined. “Health facility” means a medical facility, a facility for the dependent that is a provider of services under Medicaid or a facility which is required by the regulations adopted by the Board pursuant to NRS 449.0303 to be licensed. (Added to…

NRS 449.143 “Person with limited English proficiency” defined. “Person with limited English proficiency” means a person who speaks a language other than English and who cannot readily understand or communicate in the English language. (Added to NRS by 2025, 1066)

NRS 449.144 Health facility required to take reasonable steps to ensure language access; requirements for services to ensure language access. 1. A health facility shall take reasonable steps to ensure that language barriers do not prevent a person with limited English proficiency…

NRS 449.145 Health facility prohibited from using certain persons as interpreters; exceptions. 1. A health facility shall not: (a) Require a person with limited English proficiency to provide his or her own interpreter or pay the cost of an interpreter; (b) Utilize an adult who i…

NRS 449.146 Use of remote interpreter; training to persons who facilitate remote interpreting. 1. A health facility may use a remote interpreter to provide interpreting services necessary to comply with NRS 449.144 if the health facility utilizes audio-visual communication techno…

NRS 449.147 Qualifications to provide interpretation or translation services. An interpreter or translator is qualified to provide interpretation or translation services pursuant to NRS 449.141 to 449.147, inclusive, if the interpreter or translator: 1. Has demonstrated proficien…

NRS 449.160 Grounds for denial, suspension or revocation of license or registration; revocation of license or registration in connection with certain nuisance activity; log of complaints; information concerning complaint, investigation and disciplinary action to be provided to fa…

NRS 449.163 Administrative sanctions: Imposition by Division; disposition of money collected. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 449.1887 and 449.1918, in addition to the payment of the amount required by NRS 449.0308, if a medical facility, facility for the dependent or faci…

NRS 449.165 Administrative sanctions: Regulations of Board. The Board shall adopt regulations establishing the criteria for the imposition of each sanction prescribed by NRS 449.163. These regulations must: 1. Prescribe the circumstances and manner in which each sanction applies;…

NRS 449.167 Administrative sanctions: Imposition for failure to comply with requirements concerning electronic health information. 1. If the Division receives notification from the Nevada Health Authority pursuant to NRS 439.5895 that a medical facility licensed pursuant to this …

NRS 449.170 Denial, suspension or revocation of license or registration or imposition of sanctions: Notice; appeal; adoption of regulations. 1. When the Division intends to deny, suspend or revoke a license or registration, or impose any sanction prescribed by NRS 449.163, it sha…

NRS 449.171 Authority of Division to take control over medical records of medical facility, facility for the dependent or other facility required to be licensed by Division upon suspension of license or cessation of operation; confidentiality; sharing of records with appropriate …

NRS 449.172 Residential facility for groups: Duties of Division and operator upon suspension or revocation of license for abuse, neglect, exploitation, isolation or abandonment of occupants. If the Division suspends or revokes the license of a person who operates a residential fa…

NRS 449.174 Additional grounds for denial, suspension or revocation of license to operate certain facility, hospital, agency, program or home. 1. In addition to the grounds listed in NRS 449.160, the Division may deny a license to operate a facility, hospital, agency, program or …

NRS 449.181 Medical facility that has custody of child pursuant to court order to adopt policy relating to medical care and medications for child; employees to receive copy of policy. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a medical facility that has custody of a child …

NRS 449.1815 Medical facility prohibited from allowing person who is not enrolled at accredited medical school to perform or participate in activity for credit toward medical degree. A medical facility shall not allow a person to perform or participate in any activity at the faci…

NRS 449.1818 Off-campus location of hospital to obtain distinct national provider identifier; inclusion of national provider identifier of off-campus location or independent center for emergency medical care on claims for reimbursement. 1. Each off-campus location of a hospital s…

NRS 449.1821 Hospital to accept payment through Medicare; exceptions; duties of hospitals that provide birthing services concerning Medicaid. 1. A hospital, other than a psychiatric hospital, critical access hospital or rural hospital, shall enter into an agreement with the Unite…

NRS 449.1822 Hospital to provide for insertion or injection of long-acting reversible contraception immediately after birth upon request; exceptions; religious objection by provider of health care; maximum amounts charged to third party. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsect…

NRS 449.1823 Hospital to provide notice to Medicaid patients with nontraumatic dental injuries of teledentistry providers in Medicaid managed care networks. If a recipient of Medicaid presents in the emergency department of a hospital in this State with a nontraumatic dental inju…

NRS 449.1824 Duties of hospital and licensed entity that provides care for patient upon discharge to ensure dietary needs of patient are met. 1. If a patient will be released from a hospital to his or her residence or a rehabilitation center and a dietitian is assigned to a team …

NRS 449.1825 Required posting of certain information concerning quality of certain facilities on Internet and in facilities. 1. The Division shall post on an Internet website maintained by the Division links to: (a) The most recent star rating assigned by the Centers for Medicare…

NRS 449.183 Facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing and residential facility for groups to adopt written policy concerning readmission after temporary transfer of patient or resident. 1. A facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing and resid…

NRS 449.184 Operator of residential facility for groups, facility for intermediate care or facility for skilled nursing to post certain information in conspicuous place. 1. A person who operates a residential facility for groups shall: (a) Post his or her license to operate the r…

NRS 449.1845 Administrator of residential facility for groups to conduct annual assessment of history of each resident and cause provider of health care to conduct certain examinations and assessments; placement based on assessment. 1. The administrator of a residential facility …

NRS 449.186 Supervision of residential facility for groups. A residential facility for groups must not be operated except under the supervision of an administrator of a residential facility for groups or a health services executive licensed pursuant to the provisions of chapter 6…

NRS 449.1865 Certain residential facilities for groups to be equipped with fire sprinkler system. A residential facility for groups must be equipped with a fire sprinkler system if the facility has three or more residents who would have difficulty perceiving danger or moving to s…

NRS 449.187 Supervision of facility for skilled nursing or facility for intermediate care. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a facility for skilled nursing or facility for intermediate care licensed pursuant to the provisions of NRS 449.029 to 449.2428, inclusive, …

NRS 449.1885 Establishment of working group to develop document concerning sexual assault; distribution of document to hospitals, independent centers for emergency medical care and patients who are victims; duties of hospital and independent center for emergency medical care; acc…

NRS 449.1887 Duties of hospital or independent center for emergency medical care concerning victim of mass casualty incident; reporting; recording of unique identifier; provision of information; immunity. 1. If a hospital or an independent center for emergency medical care is loc…

NRS 449.189 Physician and nurse required to operate independent center to provide emergency medical care. An independent center to provide emergency medical care shall not be operated unless a physician and registered nurse are on the premises. (Added to NRS by 1985, 1735)

NRS 449.191 Medical facility not required to allow abortions. 1. A hospital or other medical facility licensed under the provisions of this chapter which is not operated by the State or a local government or an agency of either is not required to permit the use of its facilities …

NRS 449.1915 Provision of special diet to patient for whom special diet has been ordered; documentation; clinical privileges for licensed dietitian. 1. A medical facility shall take such actions as necessary to ensure that the facility provides a diet for each patient for whom a …

NRS 449.1918 Time period within which hospital must process certain percentage of credentialing requests; notification concerning incomplete request; report; no penalty for violation. 1. A hospital shall, for at least 95 percent of the complete requests for privileging submitted …

NRS 449.192 Admission of dentist to membership on medical staff of hospital. No dentist may be: 1. Automatically admitted to membership on the medical staff of a hospital solely because he or she is licensed as a dentist in this state or is authorized pursuant to NRS 631.267 to p…

NRS 449.1923 Admission of advanced practice registered nurse to membership on medical staff of hospital. A hospital may admit an advanced practice registered nurse to membership on the medical staff of the hospital to perform any act authorized pursuant to NRS 632.237 that is wit…

NRS 449.1925 Staff privileges for telehealth providers. A hospital may grant staff privileges to a provider of health care who is at another location for the purpose of providing services through telehealth, as defined in NRS 629.515, to patients at the hospital in the manner pre…

NRS 449.193 Facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, residential facility for groups or home for individual residential care to provide itemized statement of charges upon request to certain persons. 1. Subject to the provisions of the Health Insurance Portabi…

NRS 449.1935 Agency to provide personal care services in the home authorized to provide certain services to elderly persons and persons with disabilities. Repealed. (See chapter 158, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 1006.)

NRS 449.194 Certain employees of community health worker pool immune from civil liability resulting from rendering emergency care or assistance. Any person who is employed by a community health worker pool who: 1. Has successfully completed a course in cardiopulmonary resuscitati…

NRS 449.195 Waiver of deductible or copayment; conditions. A medical facility shall not waive a deductible or copayment if: 1. The medical facility is not a preferred provider of health care; and 2. The waiver would reduce the financial effect of a preferred provider’s incentive …

NRS 449.196 Requirements for and duties of program of hospice care. 1. No person, state or local government or agency may represent that it provides “hospice care” unless the program of care, either directly or indirectly: (a) Has a medical director whose responsibilities are app…

NRS 449.197 Provision of care by facility for hospice care. A licensed facility for hospice care may provide any of the following levels of care for terminally ill patients: 1. Medical care for a patient who is in an acute episode of illness; 2. Skilled nursing care; 3. Intermedi…

NRS 449.198 Requirements for freestanding birthing center; prohibition on surgery; qualifications of director. 1. A freestanding birthing center must: (a) Provide sufficient space for members of the family of the pregnant person and other persons chosen by the pregnant person to …