What applies to a hospital in Nevada

Applies to your hospital

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• FederalFinalIn force since March 18, 2024
  HHS Office for Civil Rights, Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates (bulletin issued December 2022, revised March 18, 2024)

  Applies to: HIPAA covered entities and business associates that use tracking technologies on websites or mobile apps

  HHS guidance for HIPAA covered entities: tracking technologies on patient portals and apps may not send PHI to vendors without a business associate agreement or patient authorization.

• FederalFinalIn force since Jan. 10, 2025
  HHS Office for Civil Rights, Dear Colleague letter: Ensuring Nondiscrimination Through the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies (Jan. 10, 2025)

  Applies to: Covered entities under Section 1557 that use patient care decision support tools

  OCR guidance on 45 CFR 92.210 for Section 1557 covered entities, such as practices and hospitals; it changes no coverage, payment or licensure decision reaching physicians.

• FederalIn forceIn force since May 1, 2025
  Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities, final rule, 89 FR 37522 (May 6, 2024); 45 CFR 92.210, Nondiscrimination in the use of patient care decision support tools

  Applies to: Covered entities under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act: health programs and activities receiving HHS federal financial assistance, HHS-administered programs and ACA Exchanges

  Binds Section 1557 covered entities, such as practices and hospitals receiving HHS funds, on decision support tools; it changes no coverage, payment or licensure decision reaching physicians.

• NevadaIn forceIn force since July 1, 2025
  AB 406, Makes Various Changes Relating to Health

  Applies to: AI providers offering AI systems in Nevada; licensed mental and behavioral health care providers, including psychiatrists and psychologists; public schools

  Bars psychiatrists and other mental health providers from AI in direct care, and bars any person who operates or provides an AI system, practices and hospitals included, from offering one built to deliver that care.

• FederalFinal
  HHS Office for Civil Rights, Business Associates guidance (web page, content last reviewed July 30, 2026): AI chatbot example

  Applies to: HIPAA covered entities and the vendors that handle PHI for them

  HHS guidance for HIPAA covered entities: a vendor's AI chatbot handling PHI on a patient portal is a business associate, so the practice or hospital needs a business associate agreement first.

• FederalProposedSigned Jan. 6, 2025
  HIPAA Security Rule To Strengthen the Cybersecurity of Electronic Protected Health Information, proposed rule, 90 FR 898 (Jan. 6, 2025), RIN 0945-AA22

  Applies to: HIPAA covered entities and business associates

  Proposed rule binding HIPAA covered entities and business associates: asset inventory, network map, ePHI encryption and multifactor authentication, with ePHI in AI training data protected.

• FederalIntroduced
  S. 3062, Guidelines for User Age-verification and Responsible Dialogue Act of 2026 (GUARD Act), 119th Congress, reported by the Senate Judiciary Committee with an amendment (Calendar No. 406)

  Applies to: Anyone who makes an AI chatbot publicly available to consumers

  Would bind anyone who makes an AI chatbot publicly available to consumers, which reaches a practice's or hospital's patient-facing chatbot.

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• FederalIn forceIn force since Jan. 1, 2024
  Medicare Program; Contract Year 2024 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, Medicare Cost Plan Program, and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, final rule (CMS-4201-F), 88 FR 22120 (April 12, 2023), RIN 0938-AU96; 42 CFR 422.101(b)(6) and (c)(1) and 422.566(d)

  Applies to: Medicare Advantage organizations

  Binds Medicare Advantage plans only: medical necessity decisions rest on the enrollee's own circumstances, and a qualified professional reviews adverse decisions before issue.

• FederalFinalIn force since Feb. 6, 2024
  CMS, Frequently Asked Questions related to Coverage Criteria and Utilization Management Requirements in CMS Final Rule (CMS-4201-F), HPMS memo, Feb. 6, 2024

  Applies to: Medicare Advantage organizations and Medicare-Medicaid Plans

  Applies to Medicare Advantage organizations and Medicare-Medicaid Plans only: AI alone may not deny an admission, downgrade to observation or end post-acute care, and decisions rest on the patient's own circumstances.

• FederalIn forceIn force since Jan. 1, 2025
  Medicare physician fee schedule payment for digital mental health treatment devices, HCPCS G0552, G0553 and G0554: CY 2025 final rule (CMS-1807-F), 89 FR 97710 (Dec. 9, 2024), expanded in the CY 2026 final rule (CMS-1832-F), 90 FR 49266 (Nov. 5, 2025)

  Applies to: Physicians and other practitioners billing the Medicare physician fee schedule

  Fee schedule codes G0552 to G0554 let clinicians bill for FDA-cleared digital mental health treatment devices; a payment option, not a duty.

• FederalIn forceIn force since Jan. 1, 2026
  Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes, final rule (CMS-0057-F), 89 FR 8758 (Feb. 8, 2024), RIN 0938-AU87

  Applies to: Medicare Advantage organizations, state Medicaid and CHIP fee-for-service programs, Medicaid managed care plans, CHIP managed care entities and qualified health plan issuers on the federally facilitated Exchanges

  Binds MA, Medicaid, CHIP and Exchange payers only: prior authorization deadlines, specific denial reasons and a prior authorization API; no AI rule, listed for prior authorization.

• FederalIn forceIn force since Oct. 1, 2026
  Medicare Program; Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment Systems for Acute Care Hospitals (IPPS) and the Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System and Policy Changes and Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Rates, final rule (CMS-1849-F), 91 FR 49570 (Aug. 4, 2026), RIN 0938-AV79; new technology add-on payments under 42 CFR 412.87 and 412.88

  Applies to: Hospitals paid under the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system

  Inpatient new technology add-on payments for approved AI tools; a payment change for hospitals, not a duty.

• FederalProposedSigned July 7, 2026
  Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems; and Quality Reporting Programs, CY 2027 proposed rule (CMS-1850-P), 91 FR 41734 (July 7, 2026), RIN 0938-AV83

  Applies to: Hospital outpatient departments paid under the Medicare outpatient prospective payment system

  Proposed outpatient payment for 36 designated software analysis services in hospital outpatient departments; a payment change, not a duty.

• FederalProposedSigned July 16, 2026
  Medicare and Medicaid Programs; CY 2027 Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Changes to Part B Payment and Coverage Policies, proposed rule (CMS-1848-P), 91 FR 43842 (July 16, 2026), RIN 0938-AV82

  Applies to: Physicians and other practitioners paid under the Medicare physician fee schedule

  Proposed fee schedule pricing for 10 software analysis codes, paid to whoever bills the fee schedule; a payment change, not a duty.

• FederalIntroduced
  H.R. 3514, Improving Seniors' Timely Access to Care Act of 2025, 119th Congress, ordered reported by the House Ways and Means Committee

  Applies to: Medicare Advantage organizations; CMS and ONC for a report to Congress

  Would bind Medicare Advantage plans only: electronic prior authorization and annual reports on requests approved or denied with AI or other decision technology.

• FederalIntroduced
  S. 3097, Health Information Privacy Reform Act, 119th Congress, reported by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee with an amendment (Calendar No. 538)

  Applies to: HHS (rulemaking); entities that process identifiable health information outside HIPAA's protections for protected health information, including data brokers; HIPAA covered entities for the AI-related minimum necessary rules

  Would direct HHS to write rules on how the minimum necessary standard applies to PHI used for AI; covered entities would be bound only through those future rules, so it affects them.