NevadaNevada seeks higher Medicaid payments for epilepsy devices
Nevada's health department had to ask federal officials to include Medicaid payment rates of at least 82% of the purchase cost for epilepsy devices and replacement parts.
What it does
Nevada's health department must ask federal officials to include Medicaid payment rates of at least 82% of the purchase cost for epilepsy devices and their replacement parts. Federal approval is not guaranteed.
Nevada set aside state money and authorized other spending for Medicaid payment work on epilepsy devices and needed computer upgrades, with amounts for each of two fiscal years.
Argument forIf federal officials approve the request, people with epilepsy may get more help from Medicaid to pay for these devices and replacement parts.
Argument againstIf federal officials approve the request, Medicaid could pay more toward these devices and parts, increasing public spending on their costs.
More detail
The health department director must ask federal officials to include Medicaid payment rates for the devices and replacement parts. The devices must be prescribed to treat epilepsy, and the request covers any replacement part for those devices. The requested rate for each device or part must be at least 82% of its purchase cost. The request must use rate-setting methods accepted by the federal health secretary. Federal approval is not guaranteed. Payments for the device and parts must be separate from, and added to, payments for medical care to implant or repair the device or replace a part. The director had to submit the request by October 1, 2025. This section took effect March 1, 2026.
The state set aside money and authorized other spending for the health department to carry out the payment provisions and make needed computer upgrades. The funding goes to the Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Health Care Financing and Policy. The money is for work on the payment provisions and necessary computer upgrades. This section took effect July 1, 2025. The funding covers fiscal years 2025–2026 and 2026–2027. Unused appropriated money must return to the State General Fund by September 18, 2026, and September 17, 2027, respectively.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Jun 9Approved by the Governor Joe Lombardo. Chapter 417.Became Law
- Jun 5Enrolled and delivered to Governor.To Governor
- Jun 2Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 984.) Reprinting dispensed with. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 20, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To printer. From printer. To re-engrossment. Re-engrossed. Third reprint. To Assembly. In Assembly. Senate Amendment No. 984 concurred in. To enrollment.Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Senate (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 1From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on Second Reading File. Read second time.Minor
- May 31In Senate. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Finance. To committee.Minor
- May 30From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.) To Senate.Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded Assembly (2nd Reprint). Result: pass.Lower
- May 29From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. Placed on General File. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 893.) To printer.Minor
- Apr 15From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint. To committee.
- Apr 14Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 82.) Taken from General File. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective. To printer.Minor
- Apr 10From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.Minor
- Mar 13Notice of eligibility for exemption.
- Feb 26From printer. To committee.
- Feb 25Read first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.Introduced
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