Nevada § 439A.230 - Information concerning hospitals: Regulations; deadline for submission of information; notice of failure to provide information to be sent to Division of Public and Behavioral Health

§ 439A.230. Information concerning hospitals: Regulations; deadline for submission of information; notice of failure to provide information to be sent to Division of Public and Behavioral Health

1. The Department shall, by regulation: (a) Prescribe the information that each hospital in this State must submit to the

Department for the program established pursuant to NRS 439A.220 . (b) Prescribe the measures of quality for hospitals that are required pursuant to

paragraph (b) of subsection 2 of NRS 439A.220 . In adopting the regulations, the Department shall: (1) Use the measures of quality endorsed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and

Quality, the National Quality Forum, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of

the United States Department of Health and Human Services, a quality improvement organization

of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Joint Commission; (2) Prescribe a reasonable number of measures of quality which must not be unduly

burdensome on the hospitals; and (3) Take into consideration the financial burden placed on the hospitals to comply

with the regulations. The measures prescribed pursuant to this paragraph must report health outcomes of

hospitals, which do not necessarily correlate with the inpatient diagnosis-related

groups or the outpatient treatments that are posted on the Internet website pursuant

to NRS 439A.270 . (c) Prescribe the manner in which a hospital must determine whether the readmission

of a patient must be reported pursuant to NRS 439A.220 as a potentially preventable readmission and the form for submission of such information. (d) Require each hospital to: (1) Provide the information prescribed in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) in the format

required by the Department; and (2) Report the information separately for inpatients and outpatients. 2. The information required pursuant to this section and NRS 439A.220 must be submitted to the Department not later than 45 days after the last day of

each calendar month. 3. If a hospital fails to submit the information required pursuant to this section

or NRS 439A.220 or submits information that is incomplete or inaccurate, the Department shall send

a notice of such failure to the hospital and to the Division of Public and Behavioral

Health of the Department.