The purpose of the Health Care Purchasing Act is to ensure public employees, public school employees and retirees of public employment and the public schools access to more affordable and enhanced quality of health insurance through cost containment and savings effected by procedures for consolidating the purchasing of publicly financed health insurance.
History: Laws 1997, ch. 74, ยง 2.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property
Article 7 - Health Care Purchasing
Section 13-7-2 - Purpose of act.
Section 13-7-4 - Mandatory consolidated purchasing.
Section 13-7-5 - Consolidated purchasing for other persons.
Section 13-7-6 - Use of social security numbers.
Section 13-7-7 - Consolidated administrative functions; benefit.
Section 13-7-8 - Maximum age of dependent.
Section 13-7-9 - General anesthesia and hospitalization for dental surgery.
Section 13-7-10 - Hearing aid coverage for children required.
Section 13-7-11 - Required coverage of patient costs incurred in cancer clinical trials.
Section 13-7-12 - Coverage for orally administered anticancer medications; limits on patient costs.
Section 13-7-13 - Coverage of prescription eye drop refills.
Section 13-7-14 - Coverage for telemedicine services.
Section 13-7-15 - Prescription drugs; prohibited formulary changes; notice requirements.
Section 13-7-17 - Pharmacy benefits; prescription synchronization.
Section 13-7-19 - Prior authorization for gynecological or obstetrical ultrasounds prohibited.
Section 13-7-20 - Prior Authorization Act.
Section 13-7-21 - Physical rehabilitation services; limits on cost sharing.
Section 13-7-22 - Coverage for contraception.
Section 13-7-23 - Pharmacist prescriptive authority services; reimbursement parity.
Section 13-7-24 - Heart artery calcium scan coverage.