2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 27 - Public Assistance
Section 5 Indigent Hospital and County Health Care
Section 27-5-11 Qualifying hospital duties and reporting.
27-5-11. Qualifying hospital duties and reporting.
A. A qualifying hospital shall accept every indigent patient who seeks health care services from the qualifying hospital.
B. Qualifying hospitals shall:
have written financial assistance policies that are publicized.
D. [C.] Within thirty days of receiving a payment from the safety net care pool, a qualifying hospital shall report the amount of such payment to the county within which it is located.
E. [D.] In addition to the report required in Subsection D of this section, a qualifying hospital shall annually report to the county within which it is located the total costs of health care services provided in the previous calendar year.
History: 1953 Comp., 13-2-23, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 234, 12; 1983, ch. 234, 4; 1993, ch. 321, 10; 2003, ch. 413, 4; 2014, ch. 79, 12.
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