Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB282: Revises provisions relating to billing for health care. (BDR 40-785)
Status: Signed into law, June 10, 2025
What the bill says
An act relating to health care; requiring a medical facility or an entity that bills for care provided by a provider of health care that receives notice from a patient of an overcharge in a medical bill to review the potential overcharge and refund any overpayment; authorizing the imposition of certain administrative fines for the failure to issue such a refund within a certain period; requiring the Governor's Consumer Health Advocate to provide certain assistance concerning overcharges and overpayments for health care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto…
From the enrolled text, June 2, 2025:
AN ACT relating to health care; requiring a medical facility or an entity that bills for care provided by a provider of health care that receives notice from a patient of an overcharge in a medical bill to review the potential overcharge and refund any overpayment; authorizing the imposition of certain administrative fines for the failure to issue such a refund within a certain period; requiring the Governor's Consumer Health Advocate to provide certain assistance concerning overcharges and overpayments for health care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law provides every patient of a medical facility with the right to examine the bill for his or her care and receive an explanation of the bill. (NRS 449A.106) Existing law also requires each provider of health care to timely provide a patient with an itemized bill at no additional cost to the patient. (NRS 629.071) Sections 2 and 3 of this bill, respectively, require a medical facility or an entity that bills for care provided by a provider of health care that receives notice from a patient that a medical bill contains one or more overcharges to: (1) respond to the patient concerning the overcharges, including by providing the contact information for the Office for Consumer Health Assistance in the Department of Health and Human Services …
Sponsors
- (D, 20) · primary sponsor