SB337
AN ACT relating to health care; requiring certain health care facilities and certain providers of health care to provide patients with a form for a non-opioid directive and offer patients treatments that do not utilize an opioid under certain circumstances; requiring the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to create a form for a non-opioid directive; requiring the Administrator of the Division to appoint an advisory board to monitor compliance with laws and regulations relating to the non-opioid directive; requiring certain policies of health insurance to include coverage for at least one drug that is an alternative to opioids; requiring certain insurers to provide the form for a non-opioid directive to new insureds; revising the manner by which money in the Fund for a Resilient Nevada allocates money to projects and grants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to health care; requiring certain health care facilities and certain providers of health care to provide patients with a form for a non-opioid directive and offer patients treatments that do not utilize an opioid under certain circumstances; requiring the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to create a form for a non-opioid directive; requiring the Administrator of the Division to appoint an advisory board to monitor compliance with laws and regulations relating to the non-opioid directive; requiring certain policies of health insurance to include coverage for at least one drug that is an alternative to opioids; requiring certain insurers to provide the form for a non-opioid directive to new insureds; revising the manner by which money in the Fund for a Resilient Nevada allocates money to projects and grants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Introduction Date
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Primary Sponsor
View 1 Primary Sponsors Close Primary Sponsors Senator Rober
Public exhibits
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AN ACT relating to health care; requiring certain health care facilities and certain providers of health care to provide
Existing law authorizes a patient to execute certain directives and declarations to record his or her wishes relating to health care and to direct providers of health care in the provision of health care to the patient. (NRS 449A.400-449A.645) Section 15 of this bill requires the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services to create a non-opioid directive, which is a form on which a person may indicate that he or she does not wish to receive opioids, and to post the non-opioid directive on an Internet website maintained by the Division. Section 16 of this bill requires: (1) certain practitioners to provide a person with an opportunity to execute a non-opioid directive; (2) third party insurers that provide health coverage to provide persons who enroll in such health coverage a non-opioid directive; and (3) certain health care facilities to ensure that persons providing care at the facility provide a patient with an opportunity to execute a non-opioid directive. Section 16 also requires such third party insurers and health facilities to post the non-opioid directive on their Internet websites. Sections 17 and 18 of this bill set forth the procedure for a patient to execute and revoke a non-opioid directive. Section 19 of this bill prohibits a person who knows or should know that a person has executed a non-opioid directive from prescribing, administering or directing or supervising the administration of an opioid to that person excep
NELIS exhibits (4 on file)
Neutral (2)
- Adam Plain — Department of Business and Industry (Testimony In Neutral)
- Adam Plain — Insurance Division .pdf (Written Testimony)
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