NAC439A.835. Internet website for information concerning hospitals and surgical centers for ambulatory patients: Duties of Department.

The Department will:

     1. Update the information contained on the Internet website established and maintained pursuant to NRS 439A.270 at least quarterly.

     2. At least once every 2 years, review the information contained on the Internet website established and maintained pursuant to NRS 439A.270 to determine whether the information or the Internet website should be expanded, modified or otherwise altered. In making such determination, the Department will consider, without limitation, whether new measures of quality have been endorsed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the National Quality Forum, the 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 or The Joint Commission.

     3. Before including any information on the Internet website established and maintained pursuant to NRS 439A.270, use nationally accepted standards to audit the health information to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the information.

     4. Provide on the Internet website established and maintained pursuant to NRS 439A.270 a link to the Internet website of the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department which contains information on sentinel events reported pursuant to NRS 439.800 to 439.890, inclusive.

     5. Provide on the Internet website established and maintained pursuant to NRS 439A.270 a report of potentially preventable readmissions of patients who received acute care hospital services from a hospital other than a critical access hospital, using the information reported on the universal billing forms submitted pursuant to NAC 449.963. The Department will annually update the report provided pursuant to this subsection.

     6. To the extent that money is available for that purpose, provide on the Internet website established and maintained pursuant to NRS 439A.270 the name of each physician who performed a surgical procedure in a hospital or surgical center for ambulatory patients in this State and the total number of surgical procedures performed by the physician, reported by principal diagnosis and, if the information is available, by diagnosis-related group.

     7. As used in this section:

     (a) “Acute care hospital services” means services ordinarily furnished in a hospital for the care and treatment of an inpatient under the direction of a physician or dentist which are furnished in an institution that:

          (1) Is maintained primarily for the care and treatment of patients with disorders other than mental illness;

          (2) Is licensed as a hospital by the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department;

          (3) Meets the requirements for participation as a provider for Medicare; and

          (4) Has in effect a utilization review plan for any patient who is a recipient of Medicaid which complies with 42 C.F.R. § 482.30.

     (b) “Critical access hospital” means a hospital which has been certified as a critical access hospital by the Secretary of Health and Human Services pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1395i-4(e).

     (c) “Diagnosis-related group” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 439A.220.

     (Added to NAC by Dep’t of Health & Human Services by R151-08, eff. 12-17-2008; A by Div. of Health Care Fin. & Policy by R099-12, 10-4-2013)