SENATE BILL 272

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2008

INTRODUCED BY

Richard C. Martinez

AN ACT

RELATING TO COUNTIES; SETTING HEALTH CARE PROVIDER RATES FOR CARE DELIVERED TO PERSONS IN COUNTY JAIL CUSTODY.

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

      Section 1. HEALTH CARE PROVIDER REIMBURSEMENT.--A person who provides health care, including mental health care, to a person in the custody of a county jail shall charge the county for health care as follows:

          A. a medicaid provider, as defined in Subsection D of Section 27-11-2 NMSA 1978, shall charge at the same rate that the provider charges the human services department for medicaid recipients, as defined in Subsection F of Section 27-11-2 NMSA 1978; and

          B. a provider who is not a medicaid provider but who accepts reimbursement from the state for all or part of a patient's care shall charge the county at the highest rate that the state reimburses the provider for the same care pursuant to another program.

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