“We already have a system set up to where we could look at an area and decide is that a trauma, for lack of a better term, desert,” Carlton noted.
Another provision of the bill would assign an identifying number to all medical facilities to assist in collecting data on the cost of medical procedures.
Marcia Turner, Chief Administrative Officer of UMC, testified in support of AB 317, as did representatives from the Culinary Union and the Health Care Coalition, which represents health insurance needs for more than a quarter million Nevadans.