Nevada legislation · 83rd Legislature (2025)
Nevada AB284: Requires the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to seek to establish certain rates of reimbursement under M
Status: Chaptered, June 9, 2025
Requires the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to seek to establish certain rates of reimbursement under Medicaid for certain devices to treat epilepsy. (BDR S-571)
What the bill says
An act relating to Medicaid; requiring the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to seek to establish certain rates of reimbursement under Medicaid for vagus nerve stimulation therapy devices and replacement parts for such a device; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires the Department of Health and Human Services to administer the Medicaid program…
From the enrolled text, June 2, 2025:
AN ACT relating to Medicaid; requiring the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to seek to establish certain rates of reimbursement under Medicaid for vagus nerve stimulation therapy devices and replacement parts for such a device; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires the Department of Health and Human Services to administer the Medicaid program. (NRS 422.270) Section 2 of this bill requires the Director of the Department to submit to the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services a request to include under Medicaid to provide rates of reimbursement greater than or equal to 82 percent of the cost for: (1) a vagus nerve stimulation therapy device prescribed for the treatment of epilepsy; and (2) any replacement part for such a device. Section 2 also clarifies that the rates of reimbursement established for the cost of a vagus nerve stimulation therapy device and any replacement part for such a device must be separate from and in addition to the rates of reimbursement for medical care necessary for the implantation or repair of such a device or the replacement of a part for the device. Section 1 of this bill makes an appropriation to and authorizes expenditures by the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of …
Sponsors
- Tracy Brown-May (D, 42) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Approved by the Governor. Chapter 417.
- : Enrolled and delivered to Governor.
- : Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 984.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To printer. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Third reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Senate Amendment No. 984 concurred in. To enrollment.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.
- : In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Finance. To committee.
- : From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 893.) To printer.
- : From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- : Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 82.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.
- : From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.
Votes
- Senate (2nd Reprint) (June 2, 2025): 20 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Assembly (2nd Reprint) (May 30, 2025): 42 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is AB284?
- AB284 is a bill in the Nevada Legislature (83rd Legislature (2025)): Requires the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to seek to establish certain rates of reimbursement under M.
- What does AB284 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to Medicaid; requiring the Director of the Department of Health and Human Services to seek to establish certain rates of reimbursement under Medicaid for vagus nerve stimulation therapy devices and replacement parts for such a device; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law requires the Department of Health and Human Services to administer the Medicaid program…
- What is the status of AB284?
- Chaptered as of June 9, 2025. Latest action: Approved by the Governor. Chapter 417. (June 9, 2025).
- Who sponsored AB284?
- Tracy Brown-May (D, 42).
- Where is the official record for AB284?
- On the Nevada Legislature website: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/App/NELIS/REL/83rd2025/Bill/12339/Overview
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