As used in the Fair Pricing for Routine Medical Care Act:

1. A. "affiliated with" means that a person is:

   1. (1) employed by a hospital or health system; or
   2. (2) under a professional services agreement, faculty agreement or management agreement with a hospital or health system that permits the hospital or health system to bill on behalf of the person;

2. B. "campus" means:

   1. (1) a hospital's main buildings;
   2. (2) the physical area immediately adjacent to a hospital's main buildings;
   3. (3) structures owned by a hospital that are not strictly contiguous to the main buildings but are located within two hundred fifty yards of the main buildings; or
   4. (4) any other area that has been determined by the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services, on an individual case-by-case basis, to be part of a hospital's campus;

3. C. "facility fee" means a fee charged or billed by a hospital or health system for outpatient hospital services that is:

   1. (1) intended to compensate the health system or hospital for operational expenses; and
   2. (2) separate and distinct from a professional fee charged or billed by a hospital or health system for professional medical services;
4. D. "freestanding emergency department" means a facility licensed by the health care authority that is separate from an acute care hospital and that provides twenty-four-hour emergency care to patients at the same level of care that a hospital-based emergency department delivers;
5. E. "health facility" means a health facility or health agency required to be licensed by the health care authority pursuant to the Health Care Code [Chapter 24A NMSA 1978];

6. F. "health system" means a:

   1. (1) parent corporation of one or more hospitals and any person affiliated with the parent corporation through ownership, governance, membership or other means; or
   2. (2) hospital and any person affiliated with the hospital through ownership, governance, membership or other means;
7. G. "hospital" means a health facility that is licensed by the health care authority as a hospital;
8. H. "preventive health care service" means a service recommended by the United States preventive services task force;
9. I. "rural" means a rural county or an unincorporated area of a partially rural county, as designated by the health resources and services administration of the United States department of health and human services; and
10. J. "telehealth" means the use of electronic information, imaging and communication technologies, including interactive audio, video, data communications and store-and-forward technologies, to provide and support health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, transfer of medical data and education when distance separates the patient and the health care provider.

History: Laws 2026, ch. 43, § 2.

ANNOTATIONS

Effective dates. — Laws 2026, ch. 43 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective May 20, 2026, 90 days after adjournment of the legislature.