SB348

Existing law requires the State Public Health Laboratory to make available, at such charges as may be established, to health officials, the Director of the State Department of Agriculture and licensed physicians of the State, proper laboratory facilities for the prompt diagnosis of communicable diseases. (NRS 439.240) Existing law requires the State Board of Health to adopt regulations governing examinations and tests required for the discovery in infants of preventable or inheritable disorders. Existing law further requires any physician, midwife, nurse, freestanding birthing center or hospital of any nature attending or assisting any infant, or the person who gave birth to any infant, at childbirth to: (1) examine the infant in accordance with those regulations; and (2) collect and send to the State Public Health Laboratory any specimens needed for the examinations and tests that must be performed by a laboratory. (NRS 442.008) Section 3 of this bill authorizes the State Public Health Laboratory, on or after January 1, 2026, to charge a fee of not more than $150 or the rate of reimbursement paid by Medicaid, whichever is less, for the required examinations and tests for the discovery in infants of preventable or inheritable disorders. Section 1 of this bill makes a conforming change to clarify that the State Public Health Laboratory establishes the fee for such examinations and tests pursuant to section 3. Section 3 also removes a requirement that the State Public Health La