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Section 27-11-2 - Definitions.

NM Stat § 27-11-2 (2019) (N/A)
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As used in the Medicaid Provider Act:

A. "department" means the human services department;

B. "managed care organization" means a person eligible to enter into risk-based prepaid capitation agreements with the department to provide health care and related services;

C. "medicaid" means the medical assistance program established pursuant to Title 19 of the federal Social Security Act and regulations issued pursuant to that act;

D. "medicaid provider" means a person, including a managed care organization, operating under contract with the department to provide medicaid-related services to recipients;

E. "person" means an individual or other legal entity;

F. "recipient" means a person whom the department has determined to be eligible to receive medicaid-related services;

G. "secretary" means the secretary of human services; and

H. "subcontractor" means a person who contracts with a medicaid provider to provide medicaid-related services to recipients.

History: Laws 1998, ch. 30, § 2.

Cross references. — For provisions of the federal Social Security Act, see 42 U.S.C.S. § 301 et seq.

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