Revises provisions relating to the collection of data concerning providers of health care. (BDR 40-806)
AB 484 revises Nevada’s health care workforce data collection law. Under existing law, the Department of Health and Human Services maintains a confidential database of information gathered from health care providers when they renew licenses, certificates, or registrations. This bill expands the required data elements to include the applicant’s sex, any other jurisdiction where the applicant holds the same type of credential, whether the applicant uses telehealth, and the types of patients the applicant serves. It also retains and reorganizes the existing list of workforce and practice characteristics already collected, such as specialty, practice setting, location, hours worked, and patient-care time.
The bill directs the Director of DHHS to continue providing electronic data requests to licensing boards, keep the database confidential, and publish non-identifying annual reports. It also requires the Director to analyze the data and report periodically to the Legislature, the Department, and other executive agencies on ways to attract more people, including members of underrepresented groups, into health care education and practice in Nevada, and to improve health outcomes and public health. The bill takes effect immediately for rulemaking and administrative preparation, with the substantive changes effective January 1, 2026.
AB 484 amends NRS 439A.116 and related data-collection procedures for health care provider license renewals. Its practical effect is to broaden the state’s health workforce database and give policymakers more detailed demographic, geographic, practice-pattern, telehealth, and patient-population information about providers. The bill affects the Department of Health and Human Services, professional licensing boards, and renewing health care providers across multiple licensed professions, while preserving confidentiality protections for individual provider data.
The available voting history shows strong bipartisan support: the Assembly passed the bill 42-0 and the Senate passed it 21-0. No committee transcript excerpts were provided, but the unanimous votes suggest the measure was viewed favorably as a technical or policy-oriented update to workforce data collection rather than a controversial change. The overall sentiment appears positive and pragmatic, with broad agreement on improving the state’s ability to analyze the health care workforce.
No specific opposition or contentious debate is reflected in the provided materials. The main policy considerations likely concern the scope of data collected, especially demographic information such as sex and information about patient populations, and the confidentiality safeguards needed to prevent identification of individual providers. Another possible point of interest is the use of the data for workforce planning, telehealth analysis, and efforts to recruit underrepresented groups, but no recorded objections or competing viewpoints are included in the record provided.