Current through September 16, 2024
1. Except as otherwise provided in this
section and section 3, each facility described in subsection 3 of
NRS
439.4929 and each provider of health care
described in subsection 4 of that section shall report the information
prescribed by subsection 3 of this section to the Chief Medical Officer on a
paper or electronic form prescribed by the Chief Medical Officer.
2. A facility or provider of health care
shall submit a report pursuant to subsection 1 for each patient for whom:
(a) The facility or provider of health care
diagnoses a case of sickle cell disease and its variants; or
(b) Sickle cell disease and its variants is
the primary complaint of the patient, as documented in the description of the
diagnosis of the patient in the record of the patient by the use of a code
established in the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth
Revision, Clinical Modification, adopted by the National Center for
Health Statistics and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or the
code used in any successor classification system adopted by the National Center
for Health Statistics and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, for
which "sickle cell" is listed in the description of the diagnosis.
3. Each report submitted pursuant
to subsection 1 must include:
(a) The name,
address, date of birth, sex at birth, gender identity or expression, race and
ethnicity of the patient;
(b) The
name, address and telephone number of the facility or provider of health
care;
(c) The date on which the
facility or provider of health care diagnosed or treated the patient;
(d) If the facility or provider of health
care referred the patient to a hospital, medical laboratory or other facility
for further diagnosis or treatment for sickle cell disease and its variants,
the name, address and telephone number of that hospital, medical laboratory or
other facility; and
(e) The
information prescribed by paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (f) of subsection 2 of
NRS
439.4931.
4. If the Chief Medical Officer requests any
additional information from a facility or provider of health care that submits
a report pursuant to this section, the facility or provider of health care
shall provide that information to the Chief Medical Officer.
5. A report pursuant to this section must be
made:
(a) For a diagnosis made or an encounter
with a patient for whom sickle cell disease and its variants was the primary
complaint that occurs on or before June 30 of any calendar year, not later than
September 30 of that calendar year.
(b) For a diagnosis made or an encounter with
a patient for whom sickle cell disease and its variants was the primary
complaint that occurs after June 30 of any calendar year, not later than March
31 of the immediately following calendar year.
6. A person or entity who owns and operates
multiple facilities that are required to submit a report pursuant to this
section may submit one report for all such facilities and is not required to
segregate the information in the report by facility or provider of health
care.
7. A case shall be deemed not
to have been directly referred to a provider of health care or previously
admitted to a hospital, medical laboratory or other facility for the purposes
of subsection 4 of NRS 439.4929, and a provider of
health care shall submit a report pursuant to subsection 1 for such a case, if:
(a) Sickle cell disease and its variants is
the primary complaint that resulted in the visit to the provider of health
care; or
(b) The provider of health
care initiates a new treatment for sickle cell disease and its
variants.
8. A hospital
that reports information concerning the discharge of patients to the Department
pursuant to NRS
449.485:
(a)
Is not required to submit a report pursuant to this section; and
(b) Shall provide to the Chief Medical
Officer upon request any records or other information related to a case of
sickle cell disease and its variants.
9. The Division shall impose against each
facility or provider of health care that fails to comply with the requirements
of this section an administrative penalty of $200 for each calendar year in
which such a failure occurs.
Added
to NAC by Bd. of Health by
R107-22A,
eff. 7/31/2023
NRS
439.200,
439.4931
