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.
Public health leaders from state and local health authorities came together for the Nevada Public Health Association’s annual conference, hosted by the University of Nevada, Reno to discuss the future of public health in Nevada.
The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange has announced Russell Cook as the new executive director.
Home care workers across Nevada are using Labor Day to celebrate a recent, successful push to unionize, with an estimated 1,000 workers who have joined or are voting to join a health care union that already helped it score a new minimum wage requirement earlier this summer, SEIU Local 1107 said.
Most state Medicaid programs don’t recognize or pay for services offered by health workers, such as Noneo, who work on tribal lands. That’s despite their work being essentially the same as that of “community health workers” in nontribal communities, a classification many state Medicaid programs cover.
As millions of Medicaid recipients face the potential loss of health coverage for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic, state call centers are getting inundated with questions from people needing help. In some cases, federal officials say, it’s taking too long to get answers.
Health insurance rates for Nevada residents who receive coverage through the individual health insurance market are set to increase this year, but the public has a chance to provide comments before they take effect.
Nevada pharmacists say the nationwide medication shortage is the worst they have seen in their careers.
Nevada’s well-documented health care shortages are a source of frustration for many, but U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra believes it also presents opportunities.
Friday Health Plans of Nevada’s assets will be sold on Sept. 1 and those still insured by the company will need to find a new health insurer on or before Aug. 31 to avoid a gap in coverage, according to a news release from the state Division of Insurance.
The Nevada legislature recently passed Senate Bill 370 (“Nevada’s Consumer Health Data Privacy Law”) aiming to impose broad requirements on collecting, using, and selling consumer health information. Nevada joins Washington and Connecticut with its own consumer health data privacy law.