As used in the Indigent Catastrophic Illness Hospital Funding Act [27-2-41 to 27-2-47 NMSA 1978]:

1. A. "authority" or "department" means the health care authority;
2. B. "fund" means the indigent catastrophic illness hospital fund;
3. C. "hospital" means any general or special hospital that is licensed by the authority and that has annual gross charges for medicare, medicaid and indigent patients greater than ten percent of the hospital's total annual gross charges; and
4. D. "medically indigent patient" means a person who is a New Mexico resident who incurs hospital charges, who is not eligible for medicaid or medicare and whose family or household income does not exceed two hundred fifty percent of the federal poverty level.

History: Laws 1990, ch. 93, § 3; 2024, ch. 39, § 84.

ANNOTATIONS

The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, provided that references to "authority" or "department" in the Catastrophic Illness Hospital Funding Act mean the health care authority, and substituted a reference to the "health and environment department" with the health care authority regarding the licensing of a general or special hospital; in Subsection A, added "'authority' or" and deleted "human services department" and added "health care authority"; and in Subsection C, deleted "health and environment department" and added "authority".