2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 439B - Restraining Costs of Health Care
NRS 439B.855 - Access to and use of data; prohibition on release of data to certain entities; duties of recipient of data; requirement to include certain information in report which contains or uses data. [Effective January 1, 2022.]
If the all-payer claims database is established pursuant to NRS 439B.835:
1. The Department or any Division thereof may access and use data from the all-payer claims database for any purpose.
2. The Department shall release data from the all-payer claims database to the Attorney General upon request for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of chapters 598 and 598A of NRS.
3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the Department may release data from the all-payer claims database that does not contain proprietary financial information:
(a) In de-aggregated form with unique identifiers upon the submission of a request that meets the requirements of NRS 439B.850 to:
(1) A state or federal governmental entity, including, without limitation, a college or university within the Nevada System of Higher Education; or
(2) Any entity that submits data to the database pursuant to NRS 439B.840.
(b) In aggregated form to any person or entity approved by the Department that has submitted a request that meets the requirements of NRS 439B.850.
4. The Department shall not release data from the all-payer claims database in any form to any entity that is required or authorized to submit data to the all-payer claims database pursuant to NRS 439B.840 and fails to submit substantially complete data in accordance with the regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 439B.875.
5. A person or entity that receives data from the all-payer claims database pursuant to this section:
(a) Shall comply with any regulations of the Department adopted pursuant to NRS 439B.875.
(b) Shall not disclose or use the data in any manner other than as described in the request submitted pursuant to NRS 439B.850.
6. The Department shall notify each person or entity to whom data is released pursuant to subsection 3 of the percentage of residents of this State who have health coverage for which data was submitted to the all-payer claims database for the time period to which the released data pertains. Any published document that contains or uses data from the all-payer claims database, including, without limitation, the report published by the Department pursuant to NRS 439B.860, must state the percentage of residents of this State who have health coverage for which data was submitted to the database for the time period to which the data contained in or used by the published document pertains.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 3053, effective January 1, 2022)
