Every county in New Mexico shall file an annual report on all indigent health care funding by the county with the commission. The report shall contain the county's eligibility criteria for indigent patients, services provided to indigent patients, restrictions on services provided to indigent patients, conditions for reimbursement to providers of health care, revenue sources used to pay for indigent health care and other related information as determined by the commission. The report shall be submitted by October 1 of each year on a form provided by the commission. The commission shall make the report available to interested parties.
History: Laws 1993, ch. 321, § 17; 1999, ch. 37, § 2.
The 1999 amendment, effective June 18, 1999, in the first sentence inserted "all", substituted "funding" for "funded in whole or in part" and "commission" for "local government division of the department of finance and administration"; substituted "commission" for "local government division" at the end of the second sentence; in the third sentence substituted "October 1" for "July 31" and substituted "commission" for "local government division and shall provide information from the previous fiscal year" at the end of the sentence; and in the last sentence substituted "commission" for "local government division" and "to" for "for analysis by".
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 27 - Public Assistance
Article 5 - Indigent Hospital and County Health Care
Section 27-5-2 - Purpose of Indigent Hospital and County Health Care Act.
Section 27-5-3 - Public assistance provisions.
Section 27-5-5.1 - Indigent health care report; required.
Section 27-5-5.2 - Nondiscrimination; indigent patients.
Section 27-5-6 - Powers and duties of counties relating to indigent care.
Section 27-5-6.1 - Safety net care pool fund created.
Section 27-5-6.2 - Transfer to safety net care pool fund.
Section 27-5-7 - Health care assistance fund.
Section 27-5-7.1 - County health care assistance fund; authorized uses of the fund.
Section 27-5-9 - Tax levies authorized.
Section 27-5-11 - Qualifying hospital duties and reporting.
Section 27-5-12 - Payment of claims.
Section 27-5-16 - Department; payments; cooperation; reporting.