450B.265 - Offering advanced emergency care without permit; exception. - Nevada Statutes

450B.265  Offering advanced emergency care without permit; exception.

      1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a fire-fighting agency or an owner, operator, director or chief officer of an ambulance shall not represent, advertise or imply that it:

      (a) Is authorized to provide advanced emergency care; or

      (b) Uses the services of an advanced emergency medical technician,

Ê unless the service has a currently valid permit to provide advanced emergency care issued by the health authority.

      2.  Any service in a county whose population is less than 400,000, that holds a valid permit for the operation of an ambulance but is not authorized by the health authority to provide advanced emergency care may represent, for billing purposes, that its ambulance provided advanced emergency care if:

      (a) A registered nurse employed by a hospital rendered advanced emergency care to a patient being transferred from the hospital by the ambulance; and

      (b) The equipment deemed necessary by the health authority for the provision of advanced emergency care was on board the ambulance at the time the registered nurse rendered advanced emergency care.

      3.  A hospital that employs a registered nurse who renders the care described in subsection 2 is entitled to reasonable reimbursement for the services rendered by the nurse.

      (Added to NRS by 1979, 71; A 1985, 1700; 1987, 2213; 1989, 286, 1936; 1993, 2836)