New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 27 - Public Assistance
Article 5 - Indigent Hospital and County Health Care

Section 27-5-1 - Short title. - Chapter 27, Article 5 NMSA 1978 may be cited as...

Section 27-5-2 - Purpose of Indigent Hospital and County Health Care Act. - The purpose of the Indigent Hospital and County Health Care...

Section 27-5-3 - Public assistance provisions. - A. A hospital shall not be paid from the fund...

Section 27-5-4 - Definitions. - As used in the Indigent Hospital and County Health Care...

Section 27-5-4.1 - Repealed. - History: 1953 Comp., § 13-2-15.1, enacted by Laws 1978, ch....

Section 27-5-5 - Repealed. - History: 1953 Comp., § 13-2-16, enacted by Laws 1965, ch....

Section 27-5-5.1 - Indigent health care report; required. - Every county in New Mexico shall file an annual report...

Section 27-5-5.2 - Nondiscrimination; indigent patients. - Qualifying hospitals and hospitals with which a county contracts to...

Section 27-5-6 - Powers and duties of counties relating to indigent care. - A county: A. may budget for expenditure on ambulance services,...

Section 27-5-6.1 - Safety net care pool fund created. - A. The "safety net care pool fund" is created in...

Section 27-5-6.2 - Transfer to safety net care pool fund. - A. A county shall, by ordinance to be effective July...

Section 27-5-7 - Health care assistance fund. - A. There is created in the county treasury of each...

Section 27-5-7.1 - County health care assistance fund; authorized uses of the fund. - A. The fund may be used to pay for: (1)...

Section 27-5-8 - Repealed. - History: 1953 Comp., § 13-2-19, enacted by Laws 1965, ch....

Section 27-5-9 - Tax levies authorized. - A. Subject to the provisions of Subsection B of this...

Section 27-5-10 - Repealed. - History: 1953 Comp., § 13-2-22, enacted by Laws 1965, ch....

Section 27-5-11 - Qualifying hospital duties and reporting. - A. A qualifying hospital shall accept every indigent patient who...

Section 27-5-12 - Payment of claims. - A. A hospital, ambulance service or health care provider filing...

Section 27-5-12.1 - Appeal. - Any hospital or ambulance service aggrieved by any decision of...

Section 27-5-12.2 - Repealed. - History: Laws 1993, ch. 321, § 15; 2003, ch. 413,...

Section 27-5-13 - Repealed. - History: 1953 Comp., § 13-2-25, enacted by Laws 1965, ch....

Section 27-5-14 - Repealed. - History: 1953 Comp., § 13-2-26, enacted by Laws 1965, ch....

Section 27-5-15 - Repealed. - History: 1953 Comp., § 13-2-26.1, enacted by Laws 1971, ch....

Section 27-5-16 - Department; payments; cooperation; reporting. - A. The department shall not decrease the amount of any...

Section 27-5-17 - Repealed. - Repeals. — Laws 1986, ch. 20, § 136A repealed 27-5-17...

Section 27-5-18 - Repealed. - History: 1953 Comp., § 13-2-29, enacted by Laws 1965, ch....