Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 616C - Industrial Insurance: Benefits for Injury or Death
COMPENSATION FOR INJURIES AND DEATH
Permanent Partial Disability
Section 616C.476 - Rating physician or chiropractor: Performance of evaluation and calculation of entitlement to compensation

1. A rating physician or chiropractor who performs an evaluation of a permanent partial disability shall evaluate the industrial injury or occupational disease of the injured employee as it exists at the time of the rating evaluation. The rating physician or chiropractor shall take into account any improvement or worsening of the industrial injury or occupational disease that has resulted from treatment of the industrial injury or occupational disease. The rating physician or chiropractor shall not consider any factor other than the degree of physical impairment of the whole person in calculating the entitlement to compensation.

2. In performing an evaluation of a permanent partial disability, a rating physician or chiropractor shall not use: