# Nevada — State minimum standards for hospital financial assistance (charity care)

For Nevada, statute is NRS 439B.320; which hospitals must comply is A hospital shall provide, without charge, in each fiscal year, care for indigent inpatients; basis for the income test is each county shall use the definition of “indigent” in NRS 439B.310; notes is 4. Whose income is less than: (a) For one person living without another member of a household, $438. (b) For two persons, $588. (c) For three or more persons, $588 plus $150 for each person in the family in excess of two, verified against its source on 2026-08-30.

- **State:** Nevada _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Statute:** NRS 439B.320 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Which hospitals must comply:** A hospital shall provide, without charge, in each fiscal year, care for indigent inpatients _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Basis for the income test:** each county shall use the definition of “indigent” in NRS 439B.310 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Notes:** 4. Whose income is less than: (a) For one person living without another member of a household, $438. (b) For two persons, $588. (c) For three or more persons, $588 plus $150 for each person in the family in excess of two. _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> A hospital shall provide, without charge, in each fiscal year, care for indigent inpatients in an amount which represents 0.6 percent of its net revenue for the hospital’s preceding fiscal year.

## Source

- https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-439b.html

Last verified: 2026-08-30. Review by: 2027-02-22.
Part of [State minimum standards for hospital financial assistance (charity care)](https://referencesource.org/state-hospital-financial-assistance-thresholds/).