449.510 - Director to prepare and file summaries, compilations or other reports; public inspection; collection, maintenance, disclosure or publication of contracts or identification of party to contra

449.510  Director to prepare and file summaries, compilations or other reports; public inspection; collection, maintenance, disclosure or publication of contracts or identification of party to contract prohibited.

      1.  The Director shall prepare and file such summaries, compilations or other supplementary reports based on the information filed with the Director pursuant to NRS 449.450 to 449.530, inclusive, as will advance the purposes of those sections. All such summaries, compilations and reports are open to public inspection, must be made available to requesting agencies and must be prepared within a reasonable time following the end of each institution’s fiscal year or more frequently as specified by the Director.

      2.  The Director shall not collect, maintain, disclose, report or publish the details of contracts entered into by a hospital, or collect, maintain, disclose, report or publish information pursuant to this section in a manner that would allow identification of an individual payer or other party to a contract with the hospital, except that the Director may disclose to other state agencies the details of contracts between the hospital and a related entity. A state agency shall not collect, maintain, disclose, report or publish information disclosed to the agency by the Director pursuant to this subsection in a manner that would allow identification of an individual payer or other party to a contract with the hospital. The Director may review any such contracts at the hospital or at a location specified by the hospital.

      3.  As used in this section, “related entity” means an affiliated person or subsidiary as those terms are defined in NRS 439B.430.

      (Added to NRS by 1975, 704; A 1985, 1365; 1991, 2333; 1993, 619; 1997, 2527)