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.
The Trump Administration abruptly canceling – then perhaps reinstating or partially reinstating – federal health grants is creating overall “funding volatility” in state and local public health programs, officials told state lawmakers this week. The ongoing cuts and constant back-and-forth policy changes have confounded efforts to maintain state and local programs as well as retain ...
More than 10,000 people have enrolled in Nevada’s new public option health plans, which debuted last fall with the expectation that they would bring lower prices to the health insurance market. Those preliminary numbers from the open enrollment period that ended in January are less than a third of what state officials had projected. Nevada ...
Medicaid applications in Nevada skyrocketed by an average of 62% in December 2025 and this January and February over the same months a year earlier. The largest spike was in January, when the average daily number of pending applications for three categories of Medicaid – family medical; aged, blind, and disabled; and unregistered applicants (those who have ...
State Medicaid budgets will be reduced by a total of $665 billion over the next decade, after President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts federal investment in the health insurance program, according to a new analysis. Researchers from RAND Health, a policy and research nonprofit, analyzed state and federal data to estimate how ...
Nevada ranks 51st in youth and overall mental health metrics in 2025 — again — and ranked 49th in adult mental health metrics, according to an annual report assessing mental health access and care in the U.S. The state has owned dismal rankings in the annual report published by Mental Health America for several years. Specific areas the report ...
Business leaders, doctors, and policymakers gathered at The Orleans on Wednesday for a “Focus Las Vegas” symposium centered on Southern Nevada’s long-running healthcare staffing shortage and how to address it. Discussion topics ranged from training more doctors and mental health professionals to keeping patients and healthcare dollars in the valley rather than sending them out ...
More than 10,000 people have enrolled in Nevada’s new public option health plans, which debuted last fall with the expectation that they would bring lower prices to the health insurance market. Those preliminary numbers from the open enrollment period that ended in January are less than a third of what state officials had projected. Nevada ...
Several health agencies have asked a state board to formally reject the Trump administration’s guidance, which made more shots optional for schoolchildren.
More than 10,000 people have enrolled in Nevada’s new public-option health plans, which debuted last fall with the expectation that they would bring lower prices to the health insurance market. Those preliminary numbers from the open enrollment period that ended in January are less than a third of what state officials had projected. Nevada is ...
A state lawmaker described the findings as “alarming” and a “disturbing realization” of how mental health care can be treated as second-tier to physical care.