§ 630.30665 — Physician required to report certain information concerning surgeries and sentinel events; disciplinary action or fine for failure to report or false report; duties of Board; confidentiality of report; applicability; regulations

Nevada § 630.30665

• Jurisdiction: Nevada
• Title 54: PROFESSIONS, OCCUPATIONS AND BUSINESSES
• Ch. 630: Physicians,

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1. The Board shall require each holder of a license to practice medicine to submit to the Board, on a form provided by the Board, a report stating the number and type of surgeries requiring conscious sedation, deep sedation or general anesthesia performed by the holder of the license at his or her office or any other facility, excluding any surgical care performed:
(a) At a medical facility as that term is defined in NRS 449.0151 ; or
(b) Outside of this State.
2. The Board shall require each holder of a license to practice medicine to submit a report to the Board concerning the occurrence of any sentinel event arising from any surgery described in subsection 1 within 14 days after the occurrence of the sentinel event. The report must be submitted in the manner prescribed by the Board.
3. The Board shall:
(a) Collect and maintain reports received pursuant to subsections 1 and 2; and
(b) Ensure that the reports, and any additional documents created from the reports, are protected adequately from fire, theft, loss, destruction and other hazards, and from unauthorized access.
4. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 239.0115 , a report received pursuant to subsection 1 or 2 is confidential, not subject to subpoena or discovery, and not subject to inspection by the general public.
5. The provisions of this section do not apply to surgical care requiring only the administration of oral medication to a patient to relieve the patient’s anxiety or pain, if the medication is not given in a dosage that is sufficient to induce in a patient a controlled state of depressed consciousness or unconsciousness similar to general anesthesia, deep sedation or conscious sedation.
6. In addition to any other remedy or penalty, if a holder of a license to practice medicine fails to submit a report or knowingly or willfully files false information in a report submitted pursuant to this section, the Board may, after providing the holder of a license to practice medicine with notice and opportunity for a hearing, impose against the holder of a license to practice medicine an administrative penalty for each such violation. The Board shall establish by regulation a sliding scale based on the severity of the violation to determine the amount of the administrative penalty to be imposed against the holder of the license pursuant to this subsection. The regulations must include standards for determining the severity of the violation and may provide for a more severe penalty for multiple violations.
7. As used in this section:
(a) “Conscious sedation” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.436 .
(b) “Deep sedation” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.437 .
(c) “General anesthesia” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.438 .
(d) “Sentinel event” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 439.830 .

Legislative History

(Added to NRS by 2005, 2512 ; A 2007, 1826 , 2133 ; 2009, 534 , 560 ; 2011, 2860 ; 2015, 494 , 987 ; 2017, 2857 )