44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999

RELATING TO THE NEW MEXICO HEALTH SERVICE CORPS; CHANGING THE DEFINITION OF PRACTICE SITE.

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

Section 1. Section 24-1D-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1994, Chapter 63, Section 2) is amended to read:

"24-1D-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Health Service Corps Act:

A. "corps" means the New Mexico health service corps;

B. "department" means the department of health;

C. "health professional" means a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, nurse-midwife or emergency medical technician-paramedic;

D. "physician" means a medical doctor or doctor of osteopathic medicine;

E. "physician assistant" means a physician assistant or osteopathic physician assistant; and

F. "practice site" means:

(1) a public health clinic or public or private nonprofit primary care clinic that is located in a [state-designated] department-designated medically underserved area or that serves a high-needs population and that uses a sliding fee scale approved by the department; or

(2) a private primary care medical or dental office or clinic that is located in a department-designated medically underserved area or that serves a high-needs population and that has appropriate levels of service to medicaid clients, medicare clients and uninsured indigent clients, as determined by the department, and participates as appropriate in public health initiatives of the department."