Nevada Health Insurance

How healthy is living
in Nevada?

Nevada is ranked as the 38th healthiest state in the 2012 edition of America's Health Rankings® by the United Health Foundation.

The good news:

• Preventable hospitalizations have declined over the past five years.
• Over the past 10 years, the infant mortality rate dropped from 6.5 deaths per 1,000 live births to 5.6.

The bad news:

• While the percentage of children in poverty declined in the past year, it is still up significantly in the past 10 years. The 2012 rate is 20.6 percent, while the 2002 rate was 8.7 percent.
• Public health funding is just $39 per person.

Nevada's best and worst category rankings:

• Obesity – 7th
• Infectious Disease – 8th
• Air Pollution – 15th
• Infant Mortality – 15th
• Lack of Health Insurance – 49th
• Public Health Funding – 49th
• High School Graduation Rate – 50th
• Violent Crime – 50th

more details

• See the United Health Foundation's latest findings on Nevada.
• Trust for America's Health ia another source for key Nevada health quality findings. In addition, 2010's federal health reform, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), included the creation of a prevention fund to provide more than $16 billion over the next 10 years to invest in effective, proven prevention efforts, like childhood obesity prevention and tobacco cessation, and the site has a report on how it impacts Nevada here.

get local health results

State snapshot too large? Get county-by-county health rankings for Nevada, from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin.

Does Nevada have a health insurance high risk pool?

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Starting in 2010, Nevada started offering health care insurance coverage to residents through the federally established temporary high-risk pool program. To find out more about Nevada's participation, click here.

Risk pools are state-sponsored programs to help people with a history of medical problems in their family to purchase coverage. These pools are for people who can afford to buy health insurance, but are not able to get underwritten in the private market because of a pre-existing health condition. These programs can vary significantly from state to state in price, benefits and number of people served. Often insurance companies doing business in the state are required to contribute to the pool to keep it in the black. In the best cases, they allow people to be able to switch jobs or become self-employed without the fear of losing their health insurance coverage. Read more about risk pools here.

Non-profit sources of health insurance information for Nevada

• The Foundation for Health Coverage Education's mission is to provide simplified public and private health insurance eligibility information in order to help more people access coverage. Here is its guide on how to find health insurance in Nevada.
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is tracking the progress of health insurance reform in each state. Its page for Nevada can be found here.
• The National Committee for Quality Assurance is a private, non-profit organization that, among other things, provides health care plan report cards for consumers. Search for Nevada health insurance plan report cards.

Nevada state government health insurance resources

Nevada Division of Insurance on health care reform —  The state agency tasked with health insurance issues provides information on Nevada and health care reform.

Division of Health Care Financing and Policy– Medicaid —  Works in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to assist in providing quality medical care for eligible individuals and families with low incomes and limited resources.

Nevada Checkup —  Provides low-cost, comprehensive health care coverage to low income, uninsured children age 18 and under who are not covered by private insurance or Medicaid.

Nevada Department of Health and Human Services —  Consumer health assistance from the state of Nevada.

How did Nevada officials vote on health reform?

H.R.2: Repealing the Health Care Bill

#14

Date of Vote: 1/19/2011 Status: House passed 245-189, 1 not voting

HOUSE|SENATE

1/19/2011--Passed House amended. Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, effective as of its enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Act. Repeals the health care provisions of the Health Care and Education and Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of the Act's enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by the Act's health care provisions. [more]

Yes (2)

• Joe Heck

• Dean Heller

Our
Pick

No (1)

• Shelley Berkley