NAC439A.810. Information concerning surgical centers for ambulatory patients: Requirements for submission of information to Department; confidential information.

     1. Each surgical center for ambulatory patients shall prepare and submit to the Department, for each outpatient treated by the surgical center during each calendar month, the most recent universal billing form specified by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in an electronic format specified by the Department. Except as otherwise provided in NAC 439A.815, the surgical center shall submit the required information not later than 45 days after the last day of each calendar month.

     2. The Department, and any person with whom the Department enters into a contract for the development and operation of its universal billing data system, shall not disclose any information from the data system which reveals the identity of a specific outpatient of a surgical center.

     (Added to NAC by Dep’t of Health & Human Services by R151-08, 12-17-2008, eff. 5-20-2009)