NRS 630.3062 - Failure to maintain proper medical records; altering medical records; making false report; failure to file or obstructing required report; failure to allow inspection and copying of medical records; failure to report other person in violation of chapter or regulations; failure to comply with certain requirements relating to controlled substances.

NV Rev Stat § 630.3062 (2019) (N/A)

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1. The following acts, among others, constitute grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying licensure:

(a) Failure to maintain timely, legible, accurate and complete medical records relating to the diagnosis, treatment and care of a patient.

(b) Altering medical records of a patient.

(c) Making or filing a report which the licensee knows to be false, failing to file a record or report as required by law or knowingly or willfully obstructing or inducing another to obstruct such filing.

(d) Failure to make the medical records of a patient available for inspection and copying as provided in NRS 629.061, if the licensee is the custodian of health care records with respect to those records.

(e) Failure to comply with the requirements of NRS 630.3068.

(f) Failure to report any person the licensee knows, or has reason to know, is in violation of the provisions of this chapter or the regulations of the Board within 30 days after the date the licensee knows or has reason to know of the violation.

(g) Failure to comply with the requirements of NRS 453.163, 453.164, 453.226, 639.23507, 639.23535 and 639.2391 to 639.23916, inclusive, and any regulations adopted by the State Board of Pharmacy pursuant thereto.

(h) Fraudulent, illegal, unauthorized or otherwise inappropriate prescribing, administering or dispensing of a controlled substance listed in schedule II, III or IV.

2. As used in this section, “custodian of health care records” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.016.

(Added to NRS by 1985, 2223; A 1987, 199; 2001, 767; 2002 Special Session, 19; 2003, 3433; 2009, 2963; 2015, 493, 1170; 2017, 2763, 4411; 2019, 2201)

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NRS 630.306 - Inability to practice medicine; deceptive conduct; violation of regulation governing practice of medicine or adopted by State Board of Pharmacy; unlawful distribution of controlled substance; injection of silicone; practice beyond scope of license; practicing experimental medicine without consent of patient or patient’s family; lack of skill or diligence; alcohol or other substance use disorder; filing of false report; failure to report certain changes of information or disciplinary or criminal action in another jurisdiction; failure to be found competent after examination; certain operation of a medical facility; prohibited administration of anesthesia or sedation; engaging in unsafe or unprofessional conduct; knowingly or willfully procuring or administering certain controlled substances or dangerous drugs; failure to supervise medical assistant adequately; allowing person not enrolled in accredited medical school to perform certain activities; failure to obtain required training regarding controlled substances; unauthorized injection of dermal or soft tissue fillers or botulinum toxin. [Effective July 1, 2020.]

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