Nevada Administrative Code|Section 441A.Sec. 5 - NEW

                                                
 441A.Sec. 5. NEW 
 
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, a provider of health care who provides services to a patient who has suffered or is suspected of having suffered a drug overdose shall, regardless of whether the patient is alive and not later than 7 days after discharging the patient, report the drug overdose or suspected drug overdose to the Chief Medical Officer or his or her designee as required by subsection 2 of NRS 441A.150.
 
2. A provider of health care who provides outpatient services to a patient whom the provider of health care reasonably believes previously suffered or is suspected of having suffered a drug overdose is not required to make a report of the drug overdose unless the provider of health care believes that such a report was not made by any other provider of health care. If the provider of health care has such a belief, the provider of health care must make a report not later than 7 days after the date on which the provider of health care first learned of the drug overdose or suspected drug overdose.
 
3. A provider of health care is not required to make a report of a drug overdose if the patient who has suffered or is suspected of having suffered the drug overdose was receiving hospice care or palliative care at the time of the drug overdose or suspected drug overdose.
 
Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R053-18A, eff. 4-30-2018
 
NRS 441A.120 and 441A.150