Senate Bill No. 479-Committee on Human Resources and Facilities
June 24, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Finance
SUMMARY--Provides for reimbursement under Medicaid for semiautomated rescreening of certain tests for cervical cancer and requires study of effectiveness of system for semiautomated screening. (BDR S-1826)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Contains Appropriation not included in Executive Budget.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to tests for cervical cancer; providing for reimbursement under Medicaid for the semiautomated rescreening of certain tests; requiring the Health Division of the Department of Human Resources to conduct a study of the effectiveness of a system for semiautomated screening; making an appropriation; 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 1. Except as otherwise required by federal law or as a condition to the receipt of federal money, the Welfare Division of the Department of Human Resources shall, in its administration of assistance to the medically indigent, provide reimbursement for the rescreening, through the use of a semiautomated computer screening system, of Pap smears obtained to screen recipients of that assistance for cervical cancer.
2. As used in this section, "assistance to the medically indigent" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 422.008.
Sec. 2 The Health Division of the Department of Human Resources shall:
1. Conduct a study to determine the effectiveness of using a semiautomated computer screening system for the examination of Pap smears to screen for cervical cancer. The study must include the rescreening, through the use of such a screening system, of Pap smears obtained from women in this state who have been determined to have high-grade squamous cell abnormalities or whose deaths or hysterectomies were related to cervical cancer.
2. Report the results of the study and any recommended legislation to the 70th session of the Nevada Legislature.
Sec. 3 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to the Health Division of the Department of Human Resources the sum of $75,000 to conduct the study required by section 2 of this act.
2. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by subsection 1 must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 1999, and reverts to the state general fund as soon as all payments of money committed have been made.
3. If the appropriation made by subsection 1 is insufficient to carry out the requirements of section 2 of this act, the Health Division may request an allocation by the Interim Finance Committee from the contingency fund pursuant to NRS 353.266, 353.268 and 353.269.
Sec. 4 1. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval or on June 30, 1997, whichever occurs earlier.
2. Section 1 of this act expires by limitation on June 30, 1999.