Creates the Medicaid Health Care Workforce Account. (BDR 38-451)

Existing law requires the Office of Science, Innovation and Technology in the Office of the Governor to establish and administer a Graduate Medical Education Grant Program as a competitive grant program to award grants to institutions in this State seeking to create, expand or retain certain programs for residency training for physicians and postdoctoral medical fellows. (NRS 223.637) Existing law authorizes the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada to administer a program to provide loans for fees, books and living expenses to students in the nursing programs of the Nevada System of Higher Education. (NRS 396.890) Existing law authorizes the Nevada Health Service Corps established by the University of Nevada School of Medicine to administer a program to repay the student education loans on behalf of certain health care practitioners who practice in areas of this State in which a shortage of that type of practitioner exists. (NRS 396.903) Section 1 of this bill creates the Medicaid Health Care Workforce Account. Section 1 requires the Administrator of the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services to use the money in the Account to: (1) pay the costs of administering the Account; and (2) support projects and programs to expand the health care workforce of this State for which certain federal financial participation is available. Section 2 of this bill requires the Director of the Department to administer the provisions of section 1 in the same manner as other provisions relating to Medicaid.