Accepting compensation to influence evaluation or treatment; inappropriate division of fees; inappropriate referral to health facility, laboratory or commercial establishment; charging for services not rendered; aiding practice by unlicensed person; delegating responsibility to unqualified person; failing to disclose conflict of interest; failing to initiate performance of community service; exception.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 630.305
in effect1. The following acts, among others, constitute grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying licensure:
(a) Directly or indirectly receiving from any person, corporation or other business organization any fee, commission, rebate or other form of compensation which is intended or tends to influence the physicians objective evaluation or treatment of a patient.
(b) Dividing a fee between licensees except where the patient is informed of the division of fees and the division of fees is made in proportion to the services personally performed and the responsibility assumed by each licensee.
(c) Referring, in violation of NRS 439B.425 , a patient to a health facility, medical laboratory or commercial establishment in which the licensee has a financial interest.
(d) Charging for visits to the physicians office which did not occur or for services which were not rendered or documented in the records of the patient.
(e) Aiding, assisting, employing or advising, directly or indirectly, any unlicensed person to engage in the practice of medicine contrary to the provisions of this chapter or the regulations of the Board.
(f) Delegating responsibility for the care of a patient to a person if the licensee knows, or has reason to know, that the person is not qualified to undertake that responsibility.
(g) Failing to disclose to a patient any financial or other conflict of interest.
(h) Failing to initiate the performance of community service within 1 year after the date the community service is required to begin, if the community service was imposed as a requirement of the licensees receiving loans or scholarships from the Federal Government or a state or local government for the licensees medical education.
2. Nothing in this section prohibits a physician from forming an association or other business relationship with an optometrist pursuant to the provisions of NRS 636.373 .
Source: NV Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-630.htmlFetched: 10/4/2026