0001| HOUSE BILL 362 | 0002| 42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, | 0003| 1996 | 0004| INTRODUCED BY | 0005| EDWARD C. SANDOVAL | 0006| | 0007| | 0008| FOR THE HEALTH CARE TASK FORCE AND THE LEGISLATIVE HEALTH AND | 0009| HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE | 0010| | 0011| AN ACT | 0012| RELATING TO HEALTH CARE; PROVIDING MEDICAID PROGRAM PAYMENTS FOR | 0013| PRIMARY CARE CLINICS; ENACTING A NEW SECTION OF THE PUBLIC | 0014| ASSISTANCE ACT. | 0015| | 0016| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: | 0017| Section 1. A new section of the Public Assistance Act is | 0018| enacted to read: | 0019| "[NEW MATERIAL] MEDICAID PAYMENTS FOR PRIMARY CARE | 0020| CLINICS--MEDICAID CONTRACTS FOR MANAGED CARE REQUIRED TO INCLUDE | 0021| PRIMARY CARE CLINICS.-- | 0022| A. In providing payments under the medicaid program, | 0023| the human services department shall ensure that a community-based primary care clinic that was a federally qualified health | 0024| center in 1995 under the federal act shall receive for at least | 0025| the same amount and type of services rendered in all subsequent | 0001| years at least the same amount of total payments under the | 0002| medicaid program as the primary care clinic received in the | 0003| calendar year ending December 31, 1995. | 0004| B. In administering the medicaid program, the human | 0005| services department shall ensure that any managed care program | 0006| for medicaid, whether implemented through a federal waiver, | 0007| block grant program or otherwise, shall require a health plan | 0008| participating in the managed care program to contract with and | 0009| provide timely payments at least monthly to each primary care | 0010| clinic in the health plan's service area that was or would have | 0011| qualified as a federally qualified health center in 1995 under | 0012| the federal act." | 0013| - 2 - |