2023 New Mexico Statutes › Chapter 59A - Insurance Code › Article 23F - New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange › Section 59A-23F-12 - Health care affordability plan; rulemaking; reporting requirements.

A. The superintendent, in consultation with the secretary of human services, the secretary of taxation and revenue and the chief executive officer of the New Mexico health insurance exchange, shall promulgate rules to:
(1) provide enhanced premium and cost-sharing assistance to individuals and families for the purchase of qualified health plans on the New Mexico health insurance exchange. In providing this assistance, the superintendent shall develop health care affordability criteria designed to reduce the amount that individuals pay in premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses for qualified health plans offered on the New Mexico health insurance exchange; and
(2) establish income eligibility parameters for the health care affordability criteria for plan year 2023 and each subsequent calendar year based on available funds. New Mexico residents who qualify shall have an income that is eligible for advanced premium tax credits under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
B. The superintendent, in consultation with the human services department [health care authority department], the New Mexico medical insurance pool, the department of health and stakeholder groups, including health care providers that serve uninsured residents, health insurance carriers and consumer advocacy groups, shall develop a plan for extending health care coverage access to uninsured New Mexico residents who do not qualify for federal premium assistance or, except by reason of incarceration, qualified health plans, through the New Mexico health insurance exchange. No later than June 30, 2022, the superintendent shall submit the plan to the legislative finance committee and the legislative health and human services committee that could offer health care coverage for eligible New Mexico residents beginning July 1, 2023. The plan shall include:
(1) details about health care benefits;
(2) health care affordability criteria designed to reduce the amount that individuals pay in premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses under the plan and that result in, to the greatest extent possible, health care costs comparable to costs for New Mexico residents for whom assistance is provided under Subsection A of this section; and
(3) income eligibility parameters that prioritize eligibility for New Mexico residents with incomes under two hundred percent of federal poverty level.
C. On or before October 31, 2023 and each October 31 thereafter, the superintendent shall submit a report to the legislative finance committee and the legislative health and human services committee, which shall include:
(1) a summary of the affordability criteria implemented pursuant to Subsections A and B of this section;
(2) the estimated number of uninsured New Mexico residents who enrolled in coverage following implementation of the affordability criteria pursuant to Subsections A and B of this section; and
(3) the amount in reduced costs and coverage assistance the initiatives provided in the current and previous calendar years by income level, county and coverage source.
History:
Laws 2021, ch. 136, § 5.
ANNOTATIONS
Bracketed material.
— The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law. Laws 2023, ch. 205, § 16 provided that references to the human services department shall be deemed to be references to the health care authority department.
Effective dates.
— Laws 2021, ch. 136, § 11 made Laws 2021, ch. 136, § 5 effective January 1, 2022.