Nevada news and information

Congressional investigators say pharmacy boards in nearly all 50 states lack the information and expertise to oversee specialty pharmacies like the one tied to a deadly meningitis outbreak last year.
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LAS VEGAS—A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest health management organization to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak. Two companies—both subsidiaries of UnitedHealth...
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A Nevada jury ordered the state's largest HMO on Tuesday to pay $500 million in punitive damages to three plaintiffs in a civil negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis outbreak.
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A Nevada state court jury found the state's largest health management organization liable Thursday for $24 million in compensatory damages to three plaintiffs in a negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak that lawyers called the largest in U.S. history.
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Four executives resigned from the largest healthcare provider in Reno, Nev., after an internal investigation of a physician-practice acquisition that drew a lawsuit and a federal antitrust probe.
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A UnitedHealth Group unit put money ahead of people by failing to properly monitor a Las Vegas doctor who gave colonoscopy patients hepatitis C by mishandling the anesthetic Propofol, a lawyer told a state court jury.
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Four more states were given tentative approval to operate health insurance exchanges in partnership with the federal government on Thursday.
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About 100 people strolled into the lobby of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert's office Friday and piled up colorful paper-link chains meant to represent the state's uninsured that would be covered by Medicaid expansion.
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It's possible Nevada families won't see a doctor when they visit a clinic if a bill in the Legislature passes into law. Instead, a nurse practitioner may be running the show. The bill would remove the requirement that nurse practitioners must work under the supervision of a doctor.
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In a unanimous, decision the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed hospitals' and health systems' hopes of recouping millions in Medicare underpayments made between 1987 and 1994.
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