Nevada § 453.164 - Access to database for certain persons, occupational licensing boards, Board and Division; reporting of illegal activity or inappropriate use of controlled substance; exception to avoid interfering with investigation; practitioner required to notify Board of incorrect information in database; confidentiality of information obtained from program; notice of improper access

§ 453.164. Access to database for certain persons, occupational licensing boards, Board and Division; reporting of illegal activity or inappropriate use of controlled substance; exception to avoid interfering with investigation; practitioner required to notify Board of incorrect information in database; confidentiality of information obtained from program; notice of improper access

1. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the Board shall provide Internet

access to the database of the program established pursuant to NRS 453.162 to an occupational licensing board that licenses any practitioner who is authorized

to write prescriptions for human consumption of controlled substances listed in schedule

II, III, IV or V. An occupational licensing board that is provided access to the database pursuant

to this section may access the database to investigate a complaint, report or other

information that indicates fraudulent, illegal, unauthorized or otherwise inappropriate

activity related to the prescribing, dispensing or use of a controlled substance. The Board may terminate the access of an occupational licensing board that accesses

the database for any other purpose. 2. The Board and the Division must have access to the program established pursuant

to NRS 453.162 to identify any suspected fraudulent, illegal, unauthorized or otherwise inappropriate

activity related to the prescribing, dispensing or use of controlled substances. 3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the Board or the Division shall report

any activity it reasonably suspects may: (a) Indicate fraudulent, illegal, unauthorized or otherwise inappropriate activity

related to the prescribing, dispensing or use of a controlled substance to the appropriate

law enforcement agency or occupational licensing board and provide the law enforcement

agency or occupational licensing board with the relevant information obtained from

the program for further investigation. (b) Indicate the inappropriate use by a patient of a controlled substance to the occupational

licensing board of each practitioner who has prescribed the controlled substance to

the patient. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 1, the occupational licensing board may

access the database of the program established pursuant to NRS 453.162 to determine which practitioners are prescribing the controlled substance to the

patient. The occupational licensing board may use this information for any purpose it deems

necessary, including, without limitation, alerting a practitioner that a patient may

be fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance or determining whether a practitioner

is engaged in unlawful or unprofessional conduct. 4. The Board or Division may withhold any report required by subsection 3 if the Board

determines that doing so is necessary to avoid interfering with any pending administrative

or criminal investigation into the suspected fraudulent, illegal, unauthorized or

otherwise inappropriate prescribing, dispensing or use of a controlled substance. 5. The Board and the Division shall cooperatively develop a course of training for

persons who are required or authorized to receive access to the database of the program

pursuant to subsection 7 or NRS 453.1645 and 453.165 and require each such person to complete the course of training before the person

is provided with Internet access to the database. 6. Each practitioner who is authorized to write prescriptions for and each person

who is authorized to dispense controlled substances listed in schedule II, III, IV

or V for human consumption shall complete the course of instruction described in subsection

5. The Board shall provide Internet access to the database to each such practitioner

or other person who completes the course of instruction. 7. Each practitioner who is authorized to write prescriptions for human consumption

of controlled substances listed in schedule II, III, IV or V shall, to the extent

the program allows, access the database of the program established pursuant to NRS 453.162 at least once each 6 months to: (a) Review the information concerning the practitioner that is listed in the database,

including, without limitation, information concerning prescriptions issued by the

practitioner, and notify the Board if any such information is not correct; and (b) Verify to the Board that he or she continues to have access to and has accessed

the database as required by this subsection. 8. Information obtained from the program relating to a practitioner or a patient is

confidential and, except as otherwise provided by this section and NRS 239.0115 , 453.162 and 453.163 , must not be disclosed to any person. That information must be disclosed: (a) Upon a request made on a notarized form prescribed by the Board by a person about

whom the information requested concerns or upon such a request on behalf of that person

by his or her attorney; or (b) Upon the lawful order of a court of competent jurisdiction. 9. If the Board, the Division or a law enforcement agency determines that the database

of the program has been intentionally accessed by a person or for a purpose not authorized

pursuant to NRS 453.162 to 453.165 , inclusive, the Board, Division or law enforcement agency, as applicable, must notify

any person whose information was accessed by an unauthorized person or for an unauthorized

purpose.