1. The Account to Improve Health Care Quality and Access is hereby created in the State General Fund. The Division shall administer the Account. The revenue from assessments and penalties imposed on the operators in each operator group must be accounted for separately in the Account.
2. The interest and income on the money in the Account, after deducting any applicable charges, must be credited to the Account.
3. The money in the Account must be expended to:
(a) Provide supplemental payments or enhanced rates of reimbursement to operators in the operator group upon whom an assessment was imposed pursuant to an upper payment limit program established under the provisions of 42 C.F.R. § 447.272 or 447.321;
(b) Provide supplemental payments to operators in the operator group upon whom an assessment was imposed who provide care to recipients of Medicaid in addition to the reimbursements those operators would otherwise receive for providing such care; and
(c) Administer the provisions of NRS 422.3791 to 422.3795, inclusive.
4. Any money remaining in the Account at the end of a fiscal year does not revert to the State General Fund, and the balance of the Account must be carried forward to the next fiscal year.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 1607)