0001|                            SENATE BILL 37
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                             STUART INGLE
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; PROHIBITING DISCRIMINATION
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0012|     AGAINST CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONERS.
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0014|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0015|          Section 1.  Section 59A-46-35 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1987,
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0016|     Chapter 335, Section 1, as amended) is amended to read:
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0017|          "59A-46-35.  PROVIDER DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.--No
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0018|     class of licensed individual providers willing to meet the
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0019|     terms and conditions offered by a health maintenance
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0020|     organization shall be excluded from a health maintenance
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0021|     organization.  For purposes of this section, "providers" means
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0022|     those persons licensed ~[under Articles]~ |pursuant to Section
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0023|     61-3-23.2 NMSA 1978 or Article| 2, 4, ~[5]~ |5A|, 6, 8, 9, 10
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0024|     or 11 of Chapter 61 NMSA 1978."
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0025|          Section 2.  A new section of the New Mexico Insurance
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0001|     Code, Section 59A-47-28.3 NMSA 1978, is enacted to read:
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0002|          "59A-47-28.3.  [|NEW MATERIAL|] PROVIDER DISCRIMINATION
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0003|     PROHIBITED.--All individual and group subscriber contracts
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0004|     delivered or issued for delivery in New Mexico that, on a
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0005|     prepaid, service or indemnity basis, or all of them, provide
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0006|     for treatment of persons for the prevention, cure or
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0007|     correction of an illness or physical or mental condition shall
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0008|     include coverage for the services of a certified nurse
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0009|     practitioner.  Deductibles, limits of coverage or other terms
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0010|     and conditions of coverage for certified nurse practitioners
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0011|     shall not differ substantially from coverage for the same or
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0012|     similar services provided by other practitioners."
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