SENATE BILL 463

46th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2004

INTRODUCED BY

Timothy Z. Jennings

AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO INCREASE CERTAIN PAYMENTS TO HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. APPROPRIATION.-- 

          A. Six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the human services department for expenditure in fiscal year 2005 for the following purposes in the following amounts:

                (1) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) to increase payments to physicians and nurse midwives for deliveries and caesarean sections under the medicaid program; and

                (2) three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) to offset the three and one-half percent decrease in payments to physicians, advance practical nurses, dentists and optometrists under the medicaid program.

          B. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2005 shall revert to the general fund.

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