Nev. Rev. Stat. § 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
Effective Oct 1, 2021(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; 2021, 545)
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, except for a violation of NRS 630.2672, 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; 2021, 545)