N.M. Stat. Ann. § 27-5-16
History: 1953 Comp., § 13-2-27, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 234, § 16; 1987, ch. 88, § 5; 1993, ch. 321, § 13; 2013, ch. 151, § 1; 2014, ch. 79, § 15; 2024, ch. 39, § 101.
The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, substituted each occurrence of "department" with "authority" throughout the section.
The 2014 amendment, effective March 12, 2014, required the department to give an annual report to each county and qualifying hospital on the previous year’s payments from the safety net care pool fund; in the catchline, after "cooperation", added "reporting"; in Subsection B, after "cooperate with each", deleted "board" and added "county"; and in Subsection C, deleted all of the former language which required the department to ensure that payments did not exceed amounts that would be paid under medicare payment principles and if payments exceeded medicare payment principles, to reduce the sole community provider payment prior to any reduction in payments to hospitals under the state medicaid program, and added the current language of the subsection.
The 2013 amendment, effective June 14, 2013, provided additional sources of assistance payments; in Subsection C, in the second sentence, at the end of the sentence, after "state medicaid program" added the remainder of the sentence.
The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, deleted "human services" before "department" near the beginning and substituted "and County Health Care" for "Claims" near the end in Subsections A and B; inserted "or health care providers" before "of this state" and substituted "ambulance services, hospitals or health care providers for indigent or medicaid eligible patients" for "hospitals for indigent or welfare patients" in Subsection A; and added Subsection C.