Nevada Watch
Featured news in this section focuses on Nevada, the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange (Nevada Health Link), the Nevada Division of Insurance (in the Department of Business and Industry), and actions by the state legislature affecting insurance brokers and clients.
About 20% of Nevadans who actively selected a health plan through the state’s marketplace, Nevada Health Link, picked a new public option, Nevada Health Authority Director Stacie Weeks told lawmakers Jan. 6. In 2025, Nevada secured federal approval for its Battle Born State Plans, which have premium reduction targets. Nevada Health Link is offering these plans for the first time. ...
Nevada was awarded nearly $180 million in federal money this week to help modernize the state’s rural health care system and bolster access to it, according to the Trump administration and state officials. “Today’s announcement highlights the Trump administration’s commitment to strengthening the rural health workforce, modernizing facilities and technology, and deploying innovative care models ...
Agencies have one year to use all the money. Twenty projects have “spending concerns,” but the state has not publicly expressed worries about the deadline.
As Congress debates whether to extend the temporary federal subsidies that have helped millions of Americans buy health coverage, a crucial underlying reality is sometimes overlooked: Those subsidies are merely a band-aid covering the often unaffordable cost of health care. California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and five other states have set caps on health care spending in a bid to rein ...
President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled Monday hundreds of millions of dollars each state will receive this fiscal year as part of a $50 billion rural health fund baked into Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law. The five-year Rural Health Transformation Program — authorized under GOP lawmakers’ mega tax and spending cut package Trump signed into law in July — ...
While health authority officials updated state lawmakers on Tuesday on how the state will use $180 million in federal rural hospital funding provided by the One Big Beautiful Bill, they’re also trying to gauge how the allocation compares to the projected loss in funds rural Nevada will face due to pending Medicaid cuts scheduled go into ...
Thousands of middle-income Nevada residents are likely to lose subsidies easing the cost of health insurance purchased through public marketplaces despite steps from both parties to address the issue. Even with the lengthy back-and-forth over whether to extend the subsidies, Washington, D.C., observers say they’re expecting them to expire by the end of the year, just as ...
Gov. Joe Lombardo signed 13 bills into law on Monday following last month’s special session of the Nevada Legislature, his office announced this morning. The measures “focused on strengthening public safety, expanding health care access, modernizing cybersecurity, improving school zone safety, supporting vulnerable Nevadans, and ensuring responsible state operations,” his office said in a news ...
As more private equity firms buy health care physician practices and facilities, states are pushing back on acquisitions that some critics say could potentially gut health care infrastructure. This year alone at least seven states, including California, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maine, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, have enacted laws requiring more oversight over private equity acquisitions ...
Kaiser Permanente has announced a new partnership with Renown Health, the parent of Hometown Health plan, to create a new health insurance plan known as Kaiser Permanente Nevada. Enrollment in the new plan is expected to begin in 2026 for employers and individuals in Northern Nevada.