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Read. Follow. Verify.Nevada AB 393 prohibits hospitals from employing physicians except under specific exceptions
Last action · April 12, 2025: (Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)Sponsor: Hanadi Nadeem
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What This Bill Proposed
Assemblymember Hanadi Nadeem introduced AB 393 to prohibit hospitals and psychiatric hospitals from employing physicians as employees to practice medicine, , or , subject to specific exceptions. The measure imposes administrative penalties, license suspensions, and injunctive actions for violations, effective upon passage and approval.
Hospitals and health systems face strict administrative fines of up to $5,000 per day or potential license revocation if they employ physicians outside of approved residency programs, state-owned facilities, or other legally authorized exemptions.
- In 2010, the Nevada Attorney General issued an opinion clarifying that while hospitals traditionally retained physicians as independent contractors, no state law explicitly barred hospitals from employing physicians. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Hospitals and psychiatric hospitals
Hospitals and psychiatric hospitals are prohibited from directly employing physicians as employees unless meeting specific state-owned or graduate program exemptions, and face fines or license revocation for non-compliance.
Physicians
Physicians are restricted from working as direct employees of most hospitals, preserving the traditional independent contractor relationship outside of state facilities and training programs.
Division of Public and Behavioral Health
The Division is granted authority to enforce the prohibition by revoking licenses, seeking injunctions, and assessing daily administrative penalties against violating facilities.
Key Facts
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in Assembly committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Apr 12, 2025(Pursuant to Joint Standing Rule No. 14.3.1, no further action allowed.)
- Mar 12, 2025CommitteeFrom printer. To committee.
- Mar 11, 2025IntroducedRead first time. Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services. To printer.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy60Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz35Current news / social attention level
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