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NM Stat § 13-7-12 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property|Article 7 - Health Care Purchasing|Section 13-7-12 - Coverage for orally administered anticancer medications; limits on patient costs.

A. Group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that provides coverage for cancer treatment shall provide coverage for a prescribed, orally administered anticancer medication that is used to kill or slow the growth of cancerous cells on a basis no less favorable than intravenously administered or injected cancer medications that are covered as medical benefits by the plan. B. A group health plan shall not increase patient cost-sharing for anticancer medications in order to achieve compliance with the provisions of this section. C. Coverage of orally administered anticancer medication shall not be subject to any prior authorization, dollar limit, copayment, deductible or coinsurance provision that does not apply to intravenously administered or injected anticancer medication used to kill or slow the growth of cancerous cells. History: Laws 2011, ch. 55, § 1. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2011, ch. 55, § 7 made Laws 2011, ch. 55, § 1 effective June 17, 2011. Applicability. — Laws 2011, ch. 55, § 6 provided that the provisions of this act apply to insurance policies that provide coverage for cancer treatment and that are delivered, issued for delivery, amended, renewed or continued in this state on or after January 1, 2012.
NM Stat § 13-7-13 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property|Article 7 - Health Care Purchasing|Section 13-7-13 - Coverage of prescription eye drop refills.

A. Group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that provides coverage for prescription eye drops shall not deny coverage for a renewal of prescription eye drops when: (1) the renewal is requested by the insured at least twenty-three days for a thirty-day supply of eye drops, forty-five days for a sixty-day supply of eye drops or sixty-eight days for a ninety-day supply of eye drops from the later of the date that the original prescription was dispensed to the insured or the date that the last renewal of the prescription was dispensed to the insured; and (2) the prescriber indicates on the original prescription that additional quantities are needed and that the renewal requested by the insured does not exceed the number of additional quantities needed. B. As used in this section, "prescriber" means a person who is authorized pursuant to the New Mexico Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act [Chapter 26, Article 1 NMSA 1978] to prescribe prescription eye drops. History: Laws 2012, ch. 27, § 1. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2012, ch. 27, § 7 provided that Laws 2012, ch. 27, § 1 was effective January 1, 2013. Applicability. — Laws 2012, ch. 27, § 6 provided that the provisions of Laws 2012, ch. 27, §§ 1 to 5 apply to insurance policies that provide coverage for prescription eye drops and that are delivered, issued for delivery, amended, renewed or continued in this state on or after January 1, 2013.
NM Stat § 13-7-17 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property|Article 7 - Health Care Purchasing|Section 13-7-17 - Pharmacy benefits; prescription synchronization.

A. Group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that offers a prescription drug benefit shall allow an enrollee to fill or refill a prescription for less than a thirty-day supply of the prescription drug, and apply a prorated daily copayment or coinsurance for the fill or refill, if: (1) the prescribing practitioner or the pharmacist determines the fill or refill to be in the best interest of the patient; (2) the patient requests or agrees to receive less than a thirty-day supply of the prescription drug; and (3) the reduced fill or refill is made for the purpose of synchronizing the patient's prescription drug fills. B. Group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that offers a prescription drug benefit shall not: (1) deny coverage for the filling of a chronic medication when the fill is made in accordance with a plan to synchronize multiple prescriptions for the enrollee pursuant to Subsection A of this section established among the group health plan, the prescribing practitioner and a pharmacist. The group health plan shall allow a pharmacy to override any denial indicating that a prescription is being refilled too soon for the purposes of medication synchronization; and (2) prorate a dispensing fee to a pharmacy that fills a prescription with less than a thirty-day supply of prescription drug pursuant to Subsection A of this section. The group health plan shall pay in full a dispensing fee for a partially filled or refilled prescription for each prescription dispensed, regardless of any prorated copayment or coinsurance that the enrollee may pay for prescription synchronization services. History: Laws 2015, ch. 65, § 1. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2015, ch. 65 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 19, 2015, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.
NM Stat § 13-7-19 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property|Article 7 - Health Care Purchasing|Section 13-7-19 - Prior authorization for gynecological or obstetrical ultrasounds prohibited.

A. Group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that provides coverage for gynecological or obstetrical ultrasounds shall not require prior authorization for gynecological or obstetrical ultrasounds. B. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require payment for a gynecological or obstetrical ultrasound that is not: (1) medically necessary; or (2) a covered benefit. C. As used in this section, "prior authorization" means advance approval that is required as a condition precedent to payment for medical care or related benefits rendered to a covered person, including prospective or utilization review conducted prior to the provision of covered medical care or related benefits.History: Laws 2019, ch. 182, § 1 ANNOTATIONSEmergency clauses. — Laws 2019, ch. 182, § 7 contained an emergency clause and was approved April 3, 2019.
NM Stat § 13-7-20 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property|Article 7 - Health Care Purchasing|Section 13-7-20 - Prior Authorization Act.

Benefits administrators of group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act are subject to and shall comply with the Prior Authorization Act [59A-22B-1 to 59A-22B-5 NMSA 1978].History: Laws 2019, ch. 187, § 1 ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2019, ch. 187 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 14, 2019, 90 days after the adjournment of the legislature.
NM Stat § 13-7-21 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property|Article 7 - Health Care Purchasing|Section 13-7-21 - Physical rehabilitation services; limits on cost sharing.

A. Group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that offers coverage of physical rehabilitation services shall not impose a member cost share for physical rehabilitation services that is greater than that for primary care services on a coinsurance percentage basis when coinsurance is applied or on an absolute dollar amount when a copay is applied.B. As used in this section:(1) "physical rehabilitation services" means services aimed at maximizing an individual's level of function, returning to a prior level of function or maintaining or slowing the decline of function, which services are provided by or under the direction of a licensed physical therapist, occupational therapist or speech therapist; and(2) "primary care services" means the first level of basic or general health care for a person's health needs, including diagnostic and treatment services, initiation of referrals for other health care services and maintenance of the continuity of care when appropriate.History: Laws 2019, ch. 188, § 1. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2019, ch. 188, § 6 made Laws 2019, ch. 188, § 1 effective January 1, 2020.
NM Stat § 13-7-23 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property|Article 7 - Health Care Purchasing|Section 13-7-23 - Pharmacist prescriptive authority services; reimbursement parity.

A group health plan shall reimburse a participating provider that is a certified pharmacist clinician or pharmacist certified to provide a prescriptive authority service who provides a service at the standard contracted rate that the group health plan reimburses, for the same service under that group health plan, any licensed physician or physician assistant licensed pursuant to the Medical Practice Act [Chapter 61, Article 6 NMSA 1978] or any advanced practice certified nurse practitioner licensed pursuant to the Nursing Practice Act [Chapter 61, Article 3 NMSA 1978].History: Laws 2020, ch. 58, § 1; 2021, ch. 54, § 2. ANNOTATIONSThe 2021 amendment, effective June 18, 2021, after "Medical Practice Act", deleted "or the Osteopathic Medicine Act".
NM Stat § 13-7-24 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property|Article 7 - Health Care Purchasing|Section 13-7-24 - Heart artery calcium scan coverage.

A. Group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act shall provide coverage for eligible insureds to receive a heart artery calcium scan.B. Coverage provided pursuant to this section shall:(1) be limited to the provision of a heart artery calcium scan to an eligible insured to be used as a clinical management tool;(2) be provided every five years if an eligible insured has previously received a heart artery calcium score of zero; and(3) not be required for future heart artery calcium scans if an eligible insured receives a heart artery calcium score greater than zero.C. At its discretion or as required by law, an insurer may offer or refuse coverage for further cardiac testing or procedures for eligible insureds based upon the results of a heart artery calcium scan.D. The provisions of this section shall not apply to short-term travel, accident-only or limited or specified-disease policies, plans or certificates of health insurance.E. As used in this section:(1) "eligible insured" means an insured who:(a) is a person between the ages of forty-five and sixty-five; and(b) has an intermediate risk of developing coronary heart disease as determined by a health care provider based upon a score calculated from an evidence-based algorithm widely used in the medical community to assess a person's ten-year cardiovascular disease risk, including a score calculated using a pooled cohort equation;(2) "health care provider" means a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner or other health care professional authorized to furnish health care services within the scope of the professional's license; and(3) "heart artery calcium scan" means a computed tomography scan measuring coronary artery calcium for atherosclerosis and abnormal artery structure and function.History: Laws 2020, ch. 79, § 1.ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2020, ch. 79 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective May 20, 2020, 90 days after adjournment of the legislature.Applicability. — Laws 2020, ch. 79, § 6 provided that the provisions of Laws 2020, ch. 79, are applicable to group health insurance policies, health care plans or certificates of health insurance, other than small group health plans, that are delivered, issued for delivery or renewed in this state on or after January 1, 2021.
NM Stat § 13-7-25 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property|Article 7 - Health Care Purchasing|Section 13-7-25 - Insulin for diabetes; cost-sharing cap.

Group health care coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act shall cap the amount an insured is required to pay for a preferred formulary prescription insulin drug or a medically necessary alternative at an amount not to exceed a total of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per thirty-day supply.History: Laws 2020, ch. 36, § 1.ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2020, ch. 36, § 5 made 2020, ch. 36, § 1 effective January 1, 2021.Temporary provisions. — Laws 2020, ch. 36, § 4, effective May 20, 2020, provided that the superintendent of insurance shall convene an advisory group to include the secretary of human services, the secretary of health and the secretary of general services or their designees and the dean of the university of New Mexico college of pharmacy or the dean's designee to study the cost of prescription drugs for New Mexico consumers and make recommendations on increasing accessibility of prescription drugs. The report shall be submitted to the legislative health and human services committee and the legislative finance committee no later than October 1, 2020. The study shall examine, at a minimum, the benefits to New Mexico consumers and the potential costs of setting cost-sharing limitations for the following categories of drugs: A. inhaled prescription drugs used to control asthma; B. oral medications to treat or control diabetes; C. injectable epinephrine devices for severe allergic reactions; D. opioid reversal agents; E. medications used to treat hypertension; F. antidepressant medications; G. antipsychotic medications; H. lipid-lowering agents; and I. anticonvulsants.
NM Stat § 13-7-26 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property|Article 7 - Health Care Purchasing|Section 13-7-26 - Behavioral health services; elimination of cost sharing. (Effective January 1, 2022.)

A. Until January 1, 2027, group health coverage, including any form of self-insurance, offered, issued or renewed under the Health Care Purchasing Act that offers coverage of behavioral health services shall not impose cost sharing on those behavioral health services.B. For the purposes of this section:(1) "behavioral health services" means professional and ancillary services for the treatment, habilitation, prevention and identification of mental illnesses, substance abuse disorders and trauma spectrum disorders, including inpatient, detoxification, residential treatment and partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient therapy, outpatient and all medications, including brand-name pharmacy drugs when generics are unavailable;(2) "coinsurance" means a cost-sharing method that requires an enrollee to pay a stated percentage of medical expenses after any deductible amount is paid; provided that coinsurance rates may differ for different types of services under the same group health plan;(3) "copayment" means a cost-sharing method that requires an enrollee to pay a fixed dollar amount when health care services are received, with the plan administrator paying the balance of the allowable amount; provided that there may be different copayment requirements for different types of services under the same group health plan; and(4) "cost sharing" means a copayment, coinsurance, deductible or any other form of financial obligation of an enrollee other than a premium or a share of a premium, or any combination of any of these financial obligations, as defined by the terms of a group health plan.History: Laws 2021, ch. 136, § 3. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2021, ch. 136, § 11 made Laws 2021, ch. 136, § 3 effective January 1, 2022.
NM Stat § 13-8-1 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 13 - Public Purchases and Property|Article 8 - Public Building Plaques|Section 13-8-1 - Public buildings; acknowledgment of taxpayers when elected officials acknowledged.

On every new public building plaque that lists, acknowledges or thanks the elected officials who were in office at the time the building was funded, constructed or renovated, there shall be included a statement of equal size and visibility that thanks the taxpayers of New Mexico for their contribution in funding the construction or renovation. History: Laws 2001, ch. 85, § 1. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2001, ch. 85 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 15, 2001, 90 days after adjournment of the legislature.
NM Stat § 14-1-1 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 1 - Preservation, Restoration and Destruction of Records|Section 14-1-1 - [Filing certified copy of document when original is in danger of damage or destruction.]

Whenever any map, plat or other document on file with or in the official custody of any county clerk in this state shall be in danger of damage or destruction by reason of age, mutilation or any other cause, it shall be lawful for the board of county commissioners of such county to authorize the county clerk to have a true and correct copy thereof made and filed in the office of said county clerk, after having been certified by such county clerk to be a true, correct and compared copy of the original. History: Laws 1939, ch. 130, § 1; 1941 Comp., § 13-401; 1953 Comp., § 71-4-1. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Cross references. — For state records administrator advising and assisting in programs for disposition of records, see 14-3-18 NMSA 1978. For durability of records, see 14-8-7, 14-8-8 NMSA 1978. Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 66 Am. Jur. 2d Records and Recording Laws §§ 81, 128. 76 C.J.S. Records § 2 et seq.
NM Stat § 14-1-2 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 1 - Preservation, Restoration and Destruction of Records|Section 14-1-2 - [Effect of filing certified copy.]

The filing of such certified copy of map, plat or other document in the office of the county clerk shall relate back to the date of the filing of the original and such certified copy shall have the same validity and effect as the original. History: Laws 1939, ch. 130, § 2; 1941 Comp., § 13-402; 1953 Comp., § 71-4-2. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
NM Stat § 14-1-3 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 1 - Preservation, Restoration and Destruction of Records|Section 14-1-3 - [Method of copying.]

That copies of such maps, plats or other documents may be made in any manner which the county clerk shall determine to be best to correctly and completely exemplify the original, including the making of copies by photographic, photostatic or any other mechanical process. History: Laws 1939, ch. 130, § 3; 1941 Comp., § 13-403; 1953 Comp., § 71-4-3. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
NM Stat § 14-1-4 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 1 - Preservation, Restoration and Destruction of Records|Section 14-1-4 - ["Public officer" defined for purpose of microfilming records.]

The term public officer means any officer of the legislative, executive and judicial departments of the state whether elected or appointed, including officers of the boards, commissions, bureaus and all other agencies of this state and the departments thereof, and including officers of the state legislature and the officers and clerks of the courts of this state and, in like manner, the county and municipal officers of the counties, cities, towns and villages of this state. History: 1941 Comp., § 13-406, enacted by Laws 1947, ch. 185, § 1; 1953 Comp., § 71-4-6. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Newspapers maintained by county clerks may be microfilmed, so long as the microfilm is accessible to the public. 1979 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 79-16.
NM Stat § 14-1-5 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 1 - Preservation, Restoration and Destruction of Records|Section 14-1-5 - [Authorization for photographing and microfilming public records.]

Any public officer of the state may cause any or all records, papers or documents kept by him to be photographed, microfilmed, microphotographed or reproduced on film. Such photographic film and the device used to reproduce such records on such film shall be one which accurately reproduces the original thereof in all details. History: 1941 Comp., § 13-407, enacted by Laws 1947, ch. 185, § 2; 1953 Comp., § 71-4-7. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Cross references. — For provision that recording "book" includes microfilm, see 14-8-3 NMSA 1978. When public record may be destroyed. — A public record may not be destroyed until its reproduction in film has been approved, copies of such reproduction have been made and filed and unless the original has been a public record for at least five years or has been audited by the state comptroller's (now state auditor's) office. 1947 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 47-5092. Section controlled by 14-3-15 NMSA 1978. — Although this section permits county officials to microfilm the records maintained by them, 14-3-15 NMSA 1978 is the more specific statute and is controlling. 1979 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 79-26. Newspapers maintained by county clerks may be microfilmed, so long as the microfilm is accessible to the public. 1979 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 79-16. Authority of penitentiary warden to microfilm records, etc. — Since the penitentiary warden is an appointed public officer, he can microfilm all records, papers and documents and destroy the original records after obtaining approval, after he has made two reproductions of all original records, papers or documents, keeping one copy where the original record was kept and the other copy being sent to the secretary of state for his archives. No original records, papers or documents are to be destroyed, after copies have been made, until such records, papers or documents have been a public record for five years, or until the records have been audited by the office of the state comptroller (now state auditor). 1955 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 55-6113.
NM Stat § 14-1-6 (2021)
2021 New Mexico Statutes|Chapter 14 - Records, Rules, Legal Notices, Oaths|Article 1 - Preservation, Restoration and Destruction of Records|Section 14-1-6 - [Photographed or microfilmed copies deemed original records.]

Such photographs, microfilms, photographic film or microphotographs shall be deemed to be an original record for all purposes, including introduction in evidence in all courts or administrative agencies. A transcript, exemplification or certified copy thereof shall, for all purposes recited herein, be deemed to be a transcript, exemplification or certified copy of the original. History: 1941 Comp., § 13-408, enacted by Laws 1947, ch. 185, § 3; 1953 Comp., § 71-4-8. ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Copy did not violate best evidence rule. — A copy of the statement defendant gave to the police which was introduced into evidence did not violate the best evidence rule. State v. Darden, 1974-NMCA-032, 86 N.M. 198, 521 P.2d 1039. Newspapers maintained by county clerks may be microfilmed, so long as the microfilm is accessible to the public. 1979 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 79-16.