HOUSE BILL 87

53rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2017

INTRODUCED BY

Deborah A. Armstrong

FOR THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE

AN ACT

RELATING TO HEALTH; ESTABLISHING THE DIABETES COMMITTEE TO IDENTIFY GOALS AND BENCHMARKS FOR STATE ENTITIES TO REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF DIABETES AND COSTS AND COMPLICATIONS RELATING TO DIABETES STATEWIDE.

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

     SECTION 1. [NEW MATERIAL] DIABETES COMMITTEE--CREATION-- DUTIES--DIABETES PLAN.--

          A. The secretary of health shall convene a "diabetes committee" that shall consist of representatives from:

                (1) the department of health;

                (2) the corrections department;

                (3) the human services department;

(4) the aging and long-term services

department;

                (5) the Indian affairs department;

                (6) the public education department;

                (7) the interagency benefits advisory committee;

                (8) the university of New Mexico health sciences center; and

                (9) a telehealth program operated by a university in New Mexico with a medical school, pursuant to which a multidisciplinary team provides training, advice and support to assist primary care health care providers in delivering best-practice health care for underserved populations with complex health problems, including diabetes.

          B. The diabetes committee shall meet at the call of the secretary of health and collaborate to identify goals and benchmarks while developing individual constituent entity programs to reduce the incidence of diabetes in the state, improve diabetes care statewide and control complications associated with diabetes.

          C. The diabetes committee shall collect data from existing sources under the constituent entities' control and identify:

                (1) the incidence of diabetes statewide and the incidence among constituent entities' covered populations individually;

                (2) the geographic distribution of diabetes cases statewide;

                (3) the demographic categories in which to divide diabetes-related data, including, at a minimum, age, gender, race and ethnicity;

                (4) complications associated with diabetes; and

                (5) any other data that will assist the diabetes committee in devising a statewide plan to execute its duties pursuant to this section.

          D. The diabetes committee shall submit a report in writing, and, upon legislative request, in person, to the legislative health and human services committee and the legislative finance committee by December 1, 2018, and on December 1 every two years thereafter. The report shall include an analysis of the data collected pursuant to Subsection C of this section. The report shall include a description of the following:

                (1) the financial impact of diabetes statewide for each constituent entity and for each covered population;

                (2) the health impact for individuals statewide and for each covered population;

                (3) the diabetes prevention and control programs that the constituent entities are currently implementing, including each program's:

                     (a) purpose;

                     (b) target population;

                     (c) funding source; and

                     (d) opportunities for improving diabetes care;

                (4) the level of coordination among the constituent entities in implementing their respective diabetes prevention and control programs; and

                (5) a statewide diabetes control and prevention plan for the subsequent two-year reporting period, including:

                     (a) any recommendations for legislation or rulemaking to address diabetes statewide;

                     (b) the plan's expected outcomes;

                     (c) benchmarks controlling and preventing diabetes statewide; and

                     (d) a detailed budget blueprint that identifies the costs and resources required to implement the plan, including a proposed legislative budget for implementing the plan.

          E. The diabetes committee shall exclusively analyze data from the sources and programs in effect as of the effective date of this act; provided that a constituent entity may use otherwise unobligated funding to expand its review of diabetes-related data and programs and share its findings with the diabetes committee.

          F. As used in this section:

                (1) "constituent entity" means the corrections department, the department of health, the human services department, the aging and long-term services department, the Indian affairs department, the public education department, the interagency benefits advisory committee, the university of New Mexico health sciences center or the telehealth program described in Paragraph (9) of Subsection A of this section;

                (2) "covered population" means the population that each constituent entity of the diabetes committee serves and the family members of individuals in that covered population;

                (3) "diabetes" means type one or type two diabetes mellitus; complications related to diabetes mellitus; or pre-diabetes;

                (4) "interagency benefits advisory committee" means the group of state agencies that consolidates health care purchasing pursuant to the Health Care Purchasing Act, including the:

                     (a) risk management division and the group benefits committee of the general services department;

                     (b) retiree health care authority;

                     (c) public school insurance authority; and

                     (d) publicly funded health care program of any public school district with a student enrollment in excess of sixty thousand students; and

                (5) "telehealth" means the use of electronic information, imaging and communication technologies, including interactive audio, video and data communications as well as store-and-forward technologies, to provide and support health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, transfer of medical data and education.

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