NAC634.435. Health care records.

     1. In addition to the requirements set forth in chapter 629 of NRS, a licensee shall ensure that the health care records of his or her patients:

     (a) Include documentation of treatment of a patient, as specified in subparagraph (3) of paragraph (e), within 72 hours after that treatment;

     (b) Include documentation of information exchanged with a patient within 72 hours after that exchange;

     (c) Are clear, legible, complete and accurate;

     (d) Remain confidential, where such confidentiality is required by law; and

     (e) Contain the following information:

          (1) A description of the chief complaint for which the patient sought treatment from the licensee;

          (2) Documentation of any significant event that affects the chief complaint of the patient or the general history of the health of the patient; and

          (3) An accurate record of the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that the licensee has employed in providing chiropractic services to the patient, including, without limitation:

               (I) Examinations and the results of those examinations;

               (II) Diagnoses;

               (III) Plans for treatment of the patient, including, without limitation, any changes in those plans and the reasons for those changes;

               (IV) Areas of the body of the patient on which the licensee has performed chiropractic adjustments;

               (V) Dates on which the licensee provided chiropractic services to the patient; and

               (VI) A record of the response of the patient to treatment.

     2. A licensee who obtains the records of a patient of another licensee because of a change in the ownership of a practice shall:

     (a) Report to the Board the transfer of the records; and

     (b) Inform the Board, in writing, of the physical location of those records within 15 days after the change in ownership of the practice.

     3. A licensee who retires, moves to another state or changes the status of his or her license from active to inactive shall inform the Board of the location at which the records of his or her patients may be obtained.

     4. The administrator of the estate of a licensee who is deceased shall inform the Board of the location at which the records of the patients of the deceased licensee will be retained.

     5. As used in this section, “patient” includes:

     (a) A member of the licensee’s family;

     (b) A relative of the licensee; and

     (c) A member of the licensee’s staff,

Ê to whom the licensee provides chiropractic services.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Chiropractic Exam’rs, eff. 11-23-93; A by Chiropractic Physicians’ Bd. by R030-98, 9-10-98; R014-10, 5-5-2011)