422.2718 - State Plan for Medicaid: Inclusion of requirement for payment of certain expenses related to administration of human papillomavirus vaccine. - Nevada Statutes

422.2718  State Plan for Medicaid: Inclusion of requirement for payment of certain expenses related to administration of human papillomavirus vaccine.

      1.  The Director shall include in the State Plan for Medicaid a requirement that the State shall pay the nonfederal share of expenses incurred for administering the human papillomavirus vaccine to women and girls at such ages as recommended for vaccination by a competent authority, including, without limitation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration or the manufacturer of the vaccine.

      2.  For the purposes of this section, “human papillomavirus vaccine” means the Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Recombinant Vaccine or its successor which is approved by the Food and Drug Administration to be used for the prevention of human papillomavirus infection and cervical cancer.

      (Added to NRS by 2007, 3243)