0001|                           SENATE BILL 1146
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           MANNY M. ARAGON
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0009|     
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0010|                                AN ACT
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0011|     RELATING TO HEALTH CARE; REQUIRING THE PARTICIPATION OF THE
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0012|     UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER IN MEDICAID
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0013|     PROGRAMS; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
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0014|     
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0015|     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:
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0016|          Section 1.  UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES 
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0017|     CENTER--PARTICIPATION IN MEDICAID PROGRAMS.--
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0018|               A.  Any managed health care plan offered through a
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0019|     medicaid program shall include participation by the university
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0020|     of New Mexico health sciences center.  The human services
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0021|     department shall administer the medicaid program to ensure the
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0022|     participation includes delivery of primary care and tertiary
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0023|     care services and to attempt to ensure, to the extent permitted
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0024|     by federal law, that the medicaid patient population served by
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0025|     the university of New Mexico health sciences center remains at
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0001|     least at a level similar to that served by the university of
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0002|     New Mexico health sciences center prior to implementation of
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0003|     the medicaid managed health care program.
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0004|               B.  A managed health care plan offered through the
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0005|     medicaid program shall provide payments to the university of
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0006|     New Mexico health sciences center at rates that are reasonable
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0007|     and adequate to meet costs incurred by efficiently and
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0008|     economically operated facilities, taking into account the
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0009|     disproportionately greater severity of illness and injury
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0010|     experienced by the patient population served.
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0011|               C.  The human services department shall administer
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0012|     the program and cooperate with the university of New Mexico
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0013|     health sciences center to ensure an adequate and diverse
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0014|     patient population necessary to preserve the health sciences
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0015|     center's educational programs.  The human services department
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0016|     shall also assure continuity of general support under the state
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0017|     medicaid program to the university of New Mexico health
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0018|     sciences center for medical education and for serving a
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0019|     disproportionately large indigent patient population.
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0020|          Section 2.  EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public
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0021|     peace, health and safety that this act takes effect
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0022|     immediately.
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0023|                                    
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0024|   
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0025|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0001|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0004|                                                  March 15, 1997
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0006|   Mr. President:
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0007|   
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0008|       Your FINANCE COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0009|   
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0010|                          SENATE BILL 1146
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0011|   
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0012|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0013|   recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0015|                                Respectfully submitted,
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0020|   __________________________________
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0021|                                Ben D. Altamirano, Chairman 
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0025|   Adopted_______________________   Not
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0001|   Adopted_______________________
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0002|             (Chief Clerk)                          (Chief Clerk)
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0006|                     Date ________________________
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0009|   The roll call vote was <u> 8 </u> For <u> 0 </u> Against
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0010|           Yes:    8
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0011|           No:     None
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0012|                Excused:     Aragon, Ingle, McKibben
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0013|           Absent: None
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0016|   S1146FC1
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