Nevada Watch

If you need an “ICD PRTCTA DR US MR BCP” procedure at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, the charge will be $100,000. If, instead, you’re destined for a “Card perf spect mlt with and without wm/ef” at Valley Hospital Medical Center, it will run $15,917.

Nevada’s behavioral health policy leaders are looking to improve crisis intervention and gather data in the 2019 legislative session.

Enrollment on the state’s health insurance exchange dropped by about 200 people from the preliminary December totals after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released final numbers Thursday for the 2019 open enrollment period.

There are five days left to sign up for a plan on Nevada’s Affordable Care Act exchange, but so far, the health insurance option isn’t as popular among consumers as it was last year.

Obamacare sign-ups through Healthcare.gov are down nationally and in Nevada as the final days of open enrollment approach.

Nevada Health Link staff members are fielding calls from Obamacare health plan consumers who worry that accepting subsidies on their otherwise expensive plans could affect their chances to obtain citizenship.

Her voice is cheery. Her pitch sounds promising. But insurance experts warn that health insurance robocalls offering low co-pays and premiums to all are often misleading or false.

The number of Nevada hospitals adhering to best practices on patient safety jumped in a new report from an independent, nonprofit health care organization.

People will no longer face a tax penalty if they choose not to purchase health insurance starting next year, but those who do will find slightly lower rates on Nevada’s Obamacare exchange.

Nevada’s health insurance marketplace is warning millennials that it’s costly to be uninsured as it prepares for its sixth open enrollment period.