AN ACT
RELATING TO MEDICAID; DIRECTING THE
HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO ESTABLISH A WAIVER PROGRAM TO PROVIDE PRESCRIPTION
DRUGS FOR CERTAIN SENIORS AND DISABLED PERSONS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF
THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
Section 1. PRESCRIPTION DRUG WAIVER
PROGRAM--PURPOSE--ELIGIBILITY.--Subject to the availability of state funds and
consistent with the federal Social Security Act, the human services department
shall create a medicaid waiver program and may by regulation provide
prescription drugs to persons whose incomes are less than one hundred
eighty-five percent of the federal poverty level and who:
A. are sixty-five
years of age or older; or
B. have been determined to be disabled under the
criteria established under the federal social security administration's
disability determination rules as applied by the department.
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