New Mexico § 27-2-12.36 Equitable reimbursement for services provided at birth

New Mexico Statutes

§ 27-2-12.36 — Equitable reimbursement for services provided at birth

New Mexico § 27-2-12.36

Ch. 27Public Assistance

Art. 2Public Assistance Act

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N.M. Stat. Ann. § 27-2-12.36 (2026).

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centers. A. For the purposes of this section:

(1)"birth center" means a freestanding birth center licensed by the state for the primary purpose of performing low-risk deliveries that is not a hospital, attached to a hospital or in a hospital and where births are planned to occur away from the pregnant person's residence following a low-risk pregnancy;

(2)"medicaid" means the medical assistance program established pursuant to Title 19 of the federal Social Security Act and regulations issued pursuant to that act; and (3) "medicaid recipient" means a person whom the department has determined to be eligible to receive medicaid-related services. B. The secretary shall adopt rules that:

(1)create a methodology to determine medicaid facility fee reimbursement rates for birth centers that are

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centers. A. For the purposes of this section: (1) "birth center" means a freestanding birth center licensed by the state for the primary purpose of performing low-risk deliveries that is not a hospital, attached to a hospital or in a hospital and where births are planned to occur away from the pregnant person's residence following a low-risk pregnancy; (2) "medicaid" means the medical assistance program established pursuant to Title 19 of the federal Social Security Act and regulations issued pursuant to that act; and (3) "medicaid recipient" means a person whom the department has determined to be eligible to receive medicaid-related services. B. The secretary shall adopt rules that: (1) create a methodology to determine medicaid facility fee reimbursement rates for birth centers that are comparable to rates for similar services provided at a hospital; and (2) require annual increases to birth center facility fee reimbursement rates that are equivalent to hospital reimbursement rate increases.