2015 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 27 - Public Assistance
Section 5 Indigent Hospital and County Health Care
Section 27-5-3 Public assistance provisions.
27-5-3. Public assistance provisions.
A. A hospital shall not be paid from the fund under the Indigent Hospital and County Health Care Act for costs of an indigent patient for services that have been determined by the department to be eligible for medicaid reimbursement.
B. No action for collection of claims under the Indigent Hospital and County Health Care Act shall be allowed against an indigent patient who is medicaid eligible for medicaid covered services, nor shall action be allowed against the person who is legally responsible for the care of the indigent patient during the time that person is medicaid eligible.
History: 1953 Comp., 13-2-14, enacted by Laws 1965, ch. 234, 3; 1984, ch. 101, 1; 1993, ch. 321, 3; 2003, ch. 413, 1; 2014, ch. 79, 5.
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