2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 439B - Restraining Costs of Health Care
NRS 439B.310 - Indigent defined.

For the purposes of NRS 439B.300 to 439B.340, inclusive, indigent means those persons:

1. Who are not covered by any policy of health insurance;

2. Who are ineligible for Medicare, Medicaid, the Children s Health Insurance Program, the benefits provided pursuant to NRS 428.115 to 428.255, inclusive, or any other federal or state program of public assistance covering the provision of health care;

3. Who meet the limitations imposed by the county upon assets and other resources or potential resources; and

4. Whose income is less than:

(a) For one person living without another member of a household, $438.

(b) For two persons, $588.

(c) For three or more persons, $588 plus $150 for each person in the family in excess of two.

For the purposes of this subsection, income includes the entire income of a household and the amount which the county projects a person or household is able to earn. Household is limited to a person and the person s spouse, parents, children, brothers and sisters residing with him or her.

(Added to NRS by 1987, 868; A 1999, 2238)