Short answer for Nevada: Get the patient's consent before recording, and document it. Verbal consent is sufficient in Nevada — no written form is legally required. And the "new Nevada AI law" people often ask about does not actually restrict AI scribes.

Not legal advice. General educational information only; confirm your approach with your own counsel or compliance team.

Nevada's recording rule

Nevada's eavesdropping and wiretapping statutes (NRS 200.620 and related sections) and the case law interpreting them lead to a simple practical rule for clinics: get consent before recording. There's a technical nuance — Nevada applies a one-party standard to some in-person conversations but, following the Nevada Supreme Court's reading of the phone-call statute, an all-party standard to telephone and electronic communications. Because telehealth and any phone contact trigger the stricter standard, and because asking is best practice everywhere, the right move is to obtain the patient's consent in every setting.

Verbal consent satisfies Nevada law. The only thing to add is a short note in the chart that you obtained it.

The "new Nevada AI law," clarified

Nevada passed several AI bills in its 2025 session, and two are commonly confused:

• SB 186 would have required a disclaimer whenever a provider used generative AI to generate a communication to a patient. This bill did not pass. There is currently no Nevada statute requiring an AI disclaimer on scribe-generated notes.
• AB 406 did become law (effective July 1, 2025), but it targets AI being used to provide mental or behavioral health care — for example, an AI acting as a therapist. It explicitly allows administrative and documentation uses and requires that a licensed provider independently review AI-generated output. An AI scribe that drafts a note the provider reviews and finalizes falls in the allowed category, not the prohibited one.

What to do in Nevada

• Ask before recording. A one-sentence verbal heads-up at the start of the visit.
• Document it in the chart.
• Include anyone else in the room (family, caregiver, interpreter) in the ask.
• For behavioral health practices, make sure AI is used for documentation support — not to deliver care — and that the clinician reviews and signs every note. That keeps you clear of AB 406.

Related

See the main article, Do I Need Patient Consent to Use an AI Scribe?, for verbal scripts, documentation examples, and the printable clinic notice. To collect written consent as an optional extra step, use the Sample Consent Form for AI Scribe.

Last reviewed: June 2026.