SB5

Nevada SB5 revises health care regulations, establishes a grant program to address health care provider shortages, and mandates hospital privileging.

Nevada SB5 makes revisions to health care regulations, establishes the Statewide Health Care Access and Recruitment Grant Program, and sets timelines for hospital privileging. The bill creates the Statewide Health Care Access and Recruitment Program Account to fund grants aimed at addressing critical shortages of health care providers and clinical services. Eligible applicants include entities providing health care, governmental entities, and certain nonprofits. The bill mandates that hospitals process at least 95% of complete privileging requests from health care providers within 60 days.