Nevada at a glance
| Rule | Nevada | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| PSYPACT (psychologists) | Yes | 8 October 2026 |
| Counseling Compact (counselors) | Yes, not live yet | 8 October 2026 |
| Social Work Licensure Compact | No | 8 October 2026 |
| Health-data or health geofencing law | SB 370 consumer health data law | 30 September 2026 |
| Privacy law treating health data as sensitive | None | 30 September 2026 |
Nevada licensing boards’ advertising rules
Ads, websites and directory profiles all count as advertising to a licensing board. These are the Nevada rules we check copy against, with links to the official text. Boards update their rules, so read the current version before you rely on a summary.
Every Nevada health care professional
- An advertisement for health care services that names a health care professional must identify their type of license or certificate, displayed prominently in written ads, and must not contain deceptive or misleading information. (NRS 629.076)
Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners (physicians)
- Physician ads may not claim a manifestly incurable disease can be permanently cured, use extravagant or self-laudatory claims meant to attract patients that tend to mislead or create unrealistic expectations, claim or imply superiority over other practitioners, guarantee a service, result or painless operation, or mislead about prices, fees or credit terms. (NAC 630.190(1))
Nevada Board of Psychological Examiners (psychologists)
- A psychologist may not misrepresent their qualifications, education, experience, competence or affiliations, put false or misleading information in public statements about their services, or guarantee satisfaction or a cure. (NAC 641.239)
Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists & Clinical Professional Counselors
- Marriage and family therapists, clinical professional counselors and interns may not misrepresent, in advertising or otherwise, their education, training, license type, qualifications, competence, services or the results a client will get. (NAC 641A.243(1))
Nevada Board of Examiners for Social Workers (social workers)
- A social worker's license may not be used to back any claim, promise or guarantee of successful service, and licensees may not misrepresent their qualifications, competency, affiliations or licenses. (NAC 641B.200(1) and (2))
Telehealth across Nevada's borders
Nevada is a PSYPACT state. A psychologist whose home license is in Nevada can apply for PSYPACT's telepsychology authorization and then see clients by telehealth in the other PSYPACT states, so ads can reach clients there too.
Nevada has enacted the Counseling Compact, but it wasn't live here yet when we checked. Once it is, a licensed professional counselor based here can apply for privileges to practice in other member states instead of a separate license in each.
For physicians, psychiatrists included, Nevada is in the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which speeds up getting a license in other member states but doesn't replace it.
Telehealth ads should only reach places where the clinician can legally treat: see PSYPACT and Counseling Compact states.
Practices near a state line often see clients from next door. California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Arizona each have their own page.
Health data, tracking and Nevada law
Nevada's consumer health data law (SB 370), in effect since March 2024, covers health data collected by websites and apps, requires consent before it is collected or shared, and bans geofencing within 1,750 feet of in-person health care providers.
For marketing, that rules out location-based ad audiences drawn around clinics, and it puts consent in front of any tracking that could reveal a health condition.
This is not legal advice.
How the states compare: state health-data laws.
What patients search for in Nevada
Searches a month that name a Nevada city, with the average cost per click, from Ahrefs (checked 30 September 2026). A dash means too few to measure; “near me” searches aren't counted. The Statewide row is searches that name the state.
| City | Therapist | Psychiatrist | Ketamine | IOP | Weight loss | Functional med. | Concierge | GI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Las Vegas | 400 $7.00 | 700 $4.00 | 200 $4.50 | 150 $6.00 | 150 $6.00 | 70 $1.70 | 200 $2.50 | 1,400 $1.20 |
| Reno | 250 $6.00 | 150 $4.00 | 80 $3.00 | 10 | 90 | 30 | 60 $1.40 | 10 $1.50 |
| Henderson | 200 $8.00 | 90 | – | 20 | 30 $6.00 | – | 20 | 10 $1.20 |
| Statewide | 10 | 60 | 60 | – | – | – | – | – |
| North Las Vegas | 40 $3.00 | 40 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Of the cities measured, Las Vegas gets the most of these searches. Its biggest single search, “gastroenterologist las vegas”, gets about 1,400 a month. To turn a cost per click into a cost per booked patient, put your own numbers into the patient acquisition cost calculator.
Across the searches measured here, Nevada patients look most for gastroenterologists (about 1,420 a month), then psychiatrists (1,040). Las Vegas alone accounts for 72% of them. A click on a gastroenterologist search here costs about $1.20 on average, below the $1.40 median across the 233 gastroenterologist searches measured on our state pages.
Fill The Lobby is a remote US healthcare marketing agency; the ads and pages we write for practices are checked against rules like these. See how we handle compliance.
Sources
- PSYPACT, compact map, checked 8 October 2026
- Counseling Compact, member map, checked 8 October 2026
- Counseling Compact, 10 states now offering privileges, checked 8 October 2026
- Counseling Compact, Pennsylvania becomes the 40th member, checked 8 October 2026
- Social Work Licensure Compact, enacted in 35 states, checked 8 October 2026
- Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, participating states, checked 14 October 2026
- IAPP, US State Privacy Legislation Tracker, checked 30 September 2026
- Ahrefs Keywords Explorer, US search volumes and cost per click, checked 30 September 2026
- Nevada Legislature, NRS Chapter 603A, checked 30 September 2026
- Every Nevada health care professional, checked 30 September 2026
- Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners (physicians), checked 14 October 2026
- Nevada Board of Psychological Examiners (psychologists), checked 14 October 2026
- Nevada Board of Examiners for Marriage and Family Therapists & Clinical Professional Counselors, checked 14 October 2026
- Nevada Board of Examiners for Social Workers (social workers), checked 14 October 2026