NAC428.040. Investigation of persons for contractual liability.

Third persons whose contractual liability for a patient’s hospital care must be investigated include:

     1. Any person responsible for the patient’s support, including relatives or a guardian;

     2. The Armed Forces, if the patient is a member;

     3. The insurer of the patient’s individual or group health, accident or cash benefit plan, or disability insurance, or that of any person responsible for the patient’s support;

     4. The entity responsible for any benefit payable under any worker’s compensation or occupational disease act or under federal employer’s liability;

     5. The Social Security Administration for Medicare;

     6. Labor unions;

     7. The insurer of any third party’s liability insurance or any third party liable for the injury to the patient;

     8. The insurer of any benefits payable under any automobile insurance policy; and

     9. Public agencies such as:

     (a) The State through the Department of Health and Human Services; or

     (b) City or federal agencies.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Trustees of Fund for Hosp. Care to Indigent Persons, eff. 4-17-84)