0001| HOUSE BILL 362
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0002| 42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003| 1996
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0004| INTRODUCED BY
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0005| EDWARD C. SANDOVAL
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0008| FOR THE HEALTH CARE TASK FORCE AND THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND
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0009| HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE
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0011| AN ACT
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0012| RELATING TO HEALTH CARE; PROVIDING MEDICAID PROGRAM PAYMENTS FOR
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0013| PRIMARY CARE CLINICS; ENACTING A NEW SECTION OF THE PUBLIC
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0014| ASSISTANCE ACT.
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0016| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0017| Section 1. A new section of the Public Assistance Act is
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0018| enacted to read:
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0019| "[NEW MATERIAL] MEDICAID PAYMENTS FOR PRIMARY CARE
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0020| CLINICS--MEDICAID CONTRACTS FOR MANAGED CARE REQUIRED TO INCLUDE
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0021| PRIMARY CARE CLINICS.--
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0022| A. In providing payments under the medicaid program,
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0023| the human services department shall ensure that a community-based primary care clinic that was a federally qualified health
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0024| center in 1995 under the federal act shall receive for at least
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0025| the same amount and type of services rendered in all subsequent
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0001| years at least the same amount of total payments under the
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0002| medicaid program as the primary care clinic received in the
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0003| calendar year ending December 31, 1995.
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0004| B. In administering the medicaid program, the human
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0005| services department shall ensure that any managed care program
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0006| for medicaid, whether implemented through a federal waiver,
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0007| block grant program or otherwise, shall require a health plan
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0008| participating in the managed care program to contract with and
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0009| provide timely payments at least monthly to each primary care
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0010| clinic in the health plan's service area that was or would have
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0011| qualified as a federally qualified health center in 1995 under
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0012| the federal act."
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