Senate Bill No. 209-Senators Titus, Adler, Coffin, Mathews, Regan, Schneider, Shaffer and Wiener
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- AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring the department of human resources to pay licensed providers of hospice care for services for hospice care provided to persons who are eligible for Medicaid; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
[Approved July 16, 1997]
- THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 422 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
1. The department, through the division of health care financing and policy, shall pay, under the state plan for Medicaid:
(a) A freestanding facility for hospice care licensed pursuant to NRS 449.030; or
(b) A program for hospice care licensed pursuant to NRS 449.030,
for the services for hospice care provided by that facility or program to a person who is eligible to receive Medicaid.
2. As used in this section:
(a) "Freestanding facility for hospice care" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.006.
(b) "Hospice care" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0115.
Sec. 2. Senate Bill No. 427 of this session is hereby amended by adding a new section designated sec. 90, following sec. 89, to read as follows:
- Sec. 90. The legislative counsel shall:
- 1. In preparing the reprint and supplements to the Nevada Revised Statutes, with respect to any section that is not amended by this act or is further amended by another act, appropriately change any reference to the "welfare division of the department of human resources" to the "division of health care financing and policy within the department of human resources" in order to carry out the provisions of this act.
- 2. In preparing supplements to the Nevada Administrative Code, appropriately change any reference to the "welfare division of the department of human resources" to the "division of health care financing and policy within the department of human resources."
Sec. 3. Assembly Bill No. 13 of this session is hereby amended by adding a new section designated sec. 40, following sec. 39, to read as follows:
- Sec. 40. The legislative counsel shall:
- 1. In preparing the reprint and supplements to the Nevada Revised Statutes, with respect to any section that is not amended by this act or is further amended by another act, appropriately change any reference to "assistance to the medically indigent" to "Medicaid."
- 2. In preparing supplements to the Nevada Administrative Code, appropriately change any reference to "assistance to the medically indigent" to "Medicaid."
Sec. 4. The provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 354.599 do not apply to any additional expenses of a local government that are related to the provisions of this act.
Sec. 5. 1. This section and sections 2 and 3 of this act become effective upon passage and approval.
2. Sections 1 and 4 of this act become effective on October 1, 1997.
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