Nevada Statutes

§ 616C.120 — Employee may elect treatment through prayer in lieu of medical treatment

Nevada § 616C.120

JurisdictionNevada

Title 53LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS

Ch. 616CIndustrial

TREATMENT AND RATING OF INJURED EMPLOYEES

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 616C.120 (2026).

Text

Any provision of this chapter or chapter 616A, 616B, 616D or 617 of NRS must not prevent an employee from providing for treatment for the employee’s injuries or disease through prayer or other spiritual means in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church, which treatment is recognized in this State in lieu of medical treatment.

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Legislative History

(Added to NRS by 1973, 1595 ; A 1999, 220 )

Nearby Sections

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§ 616C.005

Forms for reporting injuries: Insurer to distribute revised forms to employers periodically; Administrator to make revised forms available to physicians, chiropractic physicians, physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses

§ 616C.010

Employee to report accident and injury to employer; examination of employee; professional employer organization to provide to leased employees instructions regarding reporting of injuries

§ 616C.015

Notice of injury or death: Requirements; availability of form; retention; notice by leased employee

§ 616C.020

Claim for compensation: Requirements for injured employee, dependent or representative to file claim; form

§ 616C.025

Recovery of compensation barred if notice of injury or claim for compensation is not filed; exceptions

§ 616C.030

Dependent of injured employee barred from filing claim for compensation if untimely or previously denied

§ 616C.035

Application for death benefit

§ 616C.040

Claim for compensation: Duty of treating physician, chiropractic physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse to file or delegate duty; electronic filing; form and contents; provision of completed form to injured employee; maintenance of forms; penalty

§ 616C.045

Report of industrial injury or occupational disease: Duty of employer to file; electronic filing; form and contents; penalty

§ 616C.050

Information required to be provided by insurer to claimant

§ 616C.052

Exposure of police officer, firefighter or arson investigator to contagious disease: Reporting and testing requirements; eligibility for compensation

§ 616C.055

Use of fee schedules which unfairly discriminate among physicians and chiropractic physicians prohibited; payment for services rendered by physician or chiropractic physician after removal from panel prohibited

§ 616C.065

Duty of insurer to accept or deny claim; new determination; penalty; failure of insurer to indicate acceptance or denial of claim; written determination

§ 616C.070

Persons who are conclusively presumed to be totally dependent on injured or deceased employee; exception

§ 616C.075

Effect of employee’s refusal to submit to physical examination after accident

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