396.905 - Use of money by the University of Nevada School of Medicine for development of obstetrical access program. - Nevada Statutes

396.905  Use of money by the University of Nevada School of Medicine for development of obstetrical access program.  Any gift, donation, bequest, grant or other source of money received by the University of Nevada School of Medicine for the development of an obstetrical access program may be used to:

      1.  Provide financial support and education to faculty and residents in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology within the University of Nevada School of Medicine and to expand the clinical services provided by such faculty and residents in areas and to populations that need obstetrical services.

      2.  Provide money to Nevada Health Centers, Inc., or its successor, to expand the clinical prenatal and obstetrical practice base of community health center clinics and to provide uninsured, underinsured and Medicaid patients with increased access to clinical prenatal and obstetrical care.

      3.  Establish a fund that allows practicing community providers of prenatal care that are participating in the obstetrical access program to draw upon money to partially compensate them for providing care to patients who have no access to clinical care because of their financial status.

      4.  Develop a database of clinical practitioners providing prenatal or obstetrical services throughout the State to monitor and analyze:

      (a) The relationship between declining services and the supply and distribution of appropriate providers of health care;

      (b) The impact of access to care issues on pregnant women, including, without limitation, poor birth outcomes which result from lack of access to care, the financial impact of such poor birth outcomes and the effects of receiving inadequate prenatal care; and

      (c) The impact of adverse judicial decisions on the delivery of obstetrical services.

      5.  Subsidize malpractice costs for clinical providers of prenatal care who maintain at least 30 percent or more of prenatal or obstetrical patients in their practice who are uninsured, underinsured or insured by Medicaid, or who use a sliding fee scale based on a patient’s financial resources when charging for such services. The subsidy must be calculated based on the number of qualified clinical providers of prenatal care, the proportion of financially compromised patients served by such providers and the total amount of money available for subsidies.

      (Added to NRS by 2003, 20th Special Session, 276)