SB495: Revises provisions relating to health care. (BDR 40-1037)

The bill

AN ACT relating to health care; revising requirements governing the electronic maintenance, transmittal and exchange of health information; making revisions relating to emergency medical care; prescribing certain requirements to expedite the credentialing and privileging of providers of health care; authorizing paramedics to serve as employees or volunteers in hospitals under certain circumstances; imposing certain requirements governing prior authorization for medical care and payment of health insurance claims; making various revisions relating to Medicaid; creating and prescribing the duties of the Office of Mental Health in the Department of Health and Human Services or the Nevada Health Authority, if it is created; prohibiting noncompetition covenants governing certain providers of health care; requiring the prioritization of certain applications for licensure as a physician or osteopathic physician; requiring certain providers of health care to provide certain data to the Department; requiring certain reports of the Board of Medical Examiners and the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine to include certain information; authorizing the establishment of an alternative pathway to licensure as a dental hygienist; establishing provisions to incentivize the provision of psychological services to rural patients; requiring the Patient Protection Commission to study academic medical centers; making appropriations; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.