2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 457 - Cancer
NRS 457.240 - Regulations of State Board of Health; fees.

1. The State Board of Health shall by regulation:

(a) Prescribe the form and manner in which the information on cases of cancer and other neoplasms must be reported;

(b) Specify the neoplasms which must be reported;

(c) Prescribe other information to be included in each such report, for example, the patient’s name and address, the pathological findings, the stage of the disease, the environmental and occupational factors, the methods of treatment, the incidence of cancer or other neoplasms in the patient’s family, and the places where the patient has resided;

(d) Establish a protocol for obtaining access to and preserving the confidentiality of the patients’ records needed for research into cancer and other neoplasms; and

(e) Prescribe a fee to be imposed on an applicant for:

(1) The issuance or renewal of a certificate of authorization for a radiation machine for mammography pursuant to NRS 457.184;

(2) The issuance or renewal of registration of a radiation machine pursuant to the regulations adopted by the State Board of Health pursuant to NRS 459.201;

(3) The renewal of a license to operate a surgical center for ambulatory patients, facility for the treatment of irreversible renal disease, facility for hospice care, program of hospice care, hospital, facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, agency to provide personal care services in the home or rural clinic pursuant to NRS 449.089; or

(4) The renewal of a license to operate a medical laboratory, other than a laboratory in which the only test performed is a test for the detection of the human immunodeficiency virus that is classified as a waived test pursuant to Subpart A of Part 493 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, pursuant to NRS 652.080.

2. The amount of any fee prescribed pursuant to paragraph (e) of subsection 1 must not exceed 8 percent of the fee for the issuance or renewal of the applicable license, certificate or registration. For the purposes of this subsection, the fee for the renewal of a license to operate a facility described in subparagraph (3) of paragraph (e) of subsection 1 does not include any fee that is imposed per bed in the facility.

3. The fees collected pursuant to paragraph (e) of subsection 1 must be accounted for separately and used by the Division to support the system for the reporting of information on cancer and other neoplasms established pursuant to NRS 457.230.

(Added to NRS by 1983, 1677; A 2015, 386; 2021, 2256)