Senate Bill No. 209-Senators Titus, Adler, Coffin, Mathews, Regan, Schneider, Shaffer and Wiener
March 13, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Finance
SUMMARY--Provides for payment to licensed providers of hospice care for services for hospice care provided to medically indigent persons. (BDR 38-293)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: Yes.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Yes.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to assistance to the medically indigent; 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 such assistance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
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 welfare division, shall pay, under the state plan for assistance to the medically indigent:
(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 assistance to the medically indigent.
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 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.