Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 639 - Pharmacists and Pharmacy
Section 639.Sec. 1.12 - NEW

Universal Citation: NV Admin Code 639.Sec. 1.12

Current through February 27, 2024

1. A medical products provider may hold at a hospital an inventory of ambulatory aids for sale to patients of the hospital upon discharge if the medical products provider:

(a) Sells those ambulatory aids pursuant to a contract with the hospital under which the hospital agrees to furnish the appropriate providers of health care who will be available at all times to assist patients with the use and operation of ambulatory aids.

(b) Employs an administrator who:
(1) Is designated as the medical products provider's administrator for the hospital;

(2) Serves in that capacity for not more than five hospitals, each of which is located not more than 50 miles from each of the others;

(3) Meets the requirements of NAC 639.694; and

(4) Is on call and reasonably available at all times to assist patients with the use and operation of ambulatory aids delivered to those patients at the site of the hospital upon their discharge.

(c) Delivers ambulatory aids to patients of the hospital only at the site of the hospital.

(d) Is in compliance with the requirements of subsection 2.

2. A medical products provider must obtain and maintain a license to engage in business as a medical products provider pursuant to NAC 639.6942 for each hospital at which the medical products provider intends to hold an inventory of ambulatory aids and sell those aids pursuant to subsection 1.

3. As used in this section:

(a) "Ambulatory aids" means mobility enhancing equipment, prosthetic devices, orthotic devices, ambulatory casts and other braces, supports and casts for human use.

(b) "Provider of health care" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031.

Added to NAC by Bd. of Pharmacy by R058-23A, eff. 1/5/2024

NRS 639.070

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