433.414 - Fees of physicians and other professionally qualified employees of facility.

433.414  Fees of physicians and other professionally qualified employees of facility.

      1.  Physicians and other professional staff employed within any division facility shall receive a reasonable fee for evaluations, examinations or court testimony when directed by the court to perform such services, singularly or as a member of an evaluation team established pursuant to the provisions of chapter 433A of NRS.

      2.  If such evaluation or testimony is provided while the physician or other professional person is acting as an employee of a division facility, the fee shall be received by the division facility at which he or she is employed.

      (Added to NRS by 1975, 1595)

      NRS 433.424  Mental health and mental retardation center revolving accounts.  A mental health and mental retardation center revolving account up to the amount of $5,000 is hereby created for each division mental health and mental retardation center, and may be used for the payment of mental health or mental retardation center bills requiring immediate payment and for no other purposes. The respective administrative officers shall deposit the money for the respective revolving accounts in one or more banks or credit unions of reputable standing. Payments made from each account must be promptly reimbursed from appropriated money of the respective mental health or mental retardation centers on claims as other claims against the State are paid.

      (Added to NRS by 1975, 1595; A 1979, 812; 1983, 395; 1999, 1496)