Nevada news and information

In a class-action lawsuit, the city of San Francisco claims Nevada state-hospital officials secretly bused hundreds of homeless patients from a psychiatric hospital to California.
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See a sampling of states' videos promoting their health insurance exchanges.
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A state senator from Nevada has joined a California lawmaker in requesting that drugmaker Purdue Pharma turn over the names of doctors the company suspects recklessly prescribed OxyContin to drug dealers and addicts.
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Nevada's health insurance exchange won't have all the bells and whistles initially hoped for when it launches Oct. 1.
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With the anticipated arrival of some 14 million newly insured individuals into the nation's healthcare system in 2014, a major concern that remains is whether coverage will equal access. Texas lawmakers, physicians and nurse practitioners have taken a step forward on that problem while many other...
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There are not enough doctors in Nevada, and the shortage is likely to get worse as tens of thousands of people become newly insured under the federal healthcare overhaul.
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Some states that will be running their health insurance exchanges with help from the federal government are not receiving necessary information in a timely fashion, which may inhibit their ability to effectively prepare for the launch of their marketplaces, according to a study released Friday from...
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In an expansion of nurse practitioners' scope of practice, Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill this week allowing NPs to write prescriptions without the supervision of a physician.
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Connecticut hospitals would win big under the CMS' latest update of its controversial rural-floor policy. The latest agency calculations project hospitals in the state will see a $75 million boost in fiscal 2014, compared to $16.7 million in the current fiscal year.
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Over the past five years, Nevada's primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America.
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