2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 457 - Cancer
NRS 457.250 - Records of health care facility, other treatment facility and provider of health care: Availability to Chief Medical Officer; abstracting of information; fees; administrative penalty for violation of section.
1. Each health care facility, other treatment facility and provider of health care in this State shall make available to the Chief Medical Officer or the Chief Medical Officer’s representative the records of the health care facility, other treatment facility or provider of health care for each case of neoplasm that is specified by the State Board of Health as subject to reporting.
2. The Division shall abstract from the records of the health care facility, other treatment facility or provider of health care or shall require the health care facility, other treatment facility or provider of health care to report to the Division such information as is required by the State Board of Health. The abstraction or report must be completed not later than 6 months after the admission, diagnosis or treatment of a patient for cancer or another neoplasm.
3. The State Board of Health shall by regulation adopt a schedule of fees which must be assessed to the health care facility, other treatment facility or provider of health care for each case from which information is abstracted by the Division pursuant to subsection 2.
4. Any person who violates this section is subject to the administrative penalty established by the State Board of Health pursuant to subsection 5.
5. The State Board of Health shall adopt regulations establishing the administrative penalty for any violation of this section.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 1677, 1678; A 1993, 174; 2001, 2257; 2015, 386; 2021, 2257)
