New Mexico
Register / Volume XXXVI, Issue 5 / March 11, 2025
NOTICE OF RULEMAKING
The
New Mexico Health Care Authority (HCA), through the Medical Assistance Division
(MAD), issued emergency rule amendments for the New Mexico Administrative Code
(NMAC) rule 8.310.2 NMAC, Health Care Professional Services, General Benefit
Description on December 23, 2024. The
Department issued this emergency rule to address the high rates of maternal
mortality and ensure the health and welfare of vulnerable women of New
Mexico. The Department is
re-promulgating these sections of the rules in full within six months of
issuance of the emergency rules in accordance with the New Mexico State Rules
Act.
Section
9-8-6 NMSA 1978, authorizes the Department Secretary to promulgate rules and
regulations that may be necessary to carry out the duties of the Department and
its divisions.
Notice Date: March 11, 2025
Hearing Date: April 11, 2025
Adoption Date: Proposed as
July 1, 2025
Technical
Citations: New Mexico State Plan
Amendment NM-24-0004
Background
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) and approved New Mexico’s State Plan amendment to incorporate Doula
Services. This rule is amended to
establish these services.
The
Health Care Authority is proposing to amend the rule
as follows:
8.310.2.8
This
section has been updated with HCA’s current mission statement.
8.310.2.12.D
HCA
amended NMAC 8.310.2.12.D for the purpose of adding a new section of the
Reproductive Health services to include Doula services coverage and Doula
provider certification requirements language.
I. RULE
These proposed rule changes will be
contained in 8.310.2 NMAC. This register
and the proposed rule are available on the HCA website at:
https://www.hca.nm.gov/lookingforinformation/registers/ and https://www.hca.nm.gov/comment-period-open-2025/. If you do not have internet access, a copy of
the proposed register and rule may be requested by contacting MAD at (505)
827-1337.
II. EFFECTIVE
DATE
The
Health Care Authority proposes implementing this rule effective July 1, 2025.
III. PUBLIC HEARING
A public hearing to receive testimony on this
proposed rule will be held on April 11, 2025, at 9:30 am, Mountain Time. The hearing will be held at
the Administrative Services Division (ASD), 1474 Rodeo Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505
and via Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83014958967?pwd=P78B1fLCFrNuDuWfLAiKbBwGh6Y96a.1
or by phone at 833 548 0282 US Toll-free.
Meeting ID: 830
1495 8967
Passcode: 497460
If you are a person with a disability and
you require this information in an alternative format or require special
accommodation to participate in the public hearing, please contact the MAD in
Santa Fe at (505) 827-1337. The HCA
requests at least ten (10) working days advance notice to provide requested
alternative formats and special accommodations.
Copies of all comments will be made
available by MAD upon request by providing copies directly to a requestor or by
making them available on the MAD website or at a location within the county of
the requestor.
IV. ADDRESS
Interested persons
may address written comments to:
New Mexico Health Care Authority
Office of the Secretary
ATTN: Medical Assistance Division Public
Comments
P.O. Box 2348
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2348
Recorded comments may be left at (505)
827-1337. Interested persons may also
address comments via electronic mail to: HCA-madrules@hca.nm.gov. Written mail, electronic mail and recorded
comments must be received no later than 5 p.m. MT on April 11, 2025. Written and recorded comments will be given
the same consideration as oral testimony made at the public hearing. All written comments received will be posted
as they are received on the HCA website at
https://www.hca.nm.gov/lookingforinformation/registers/ and
https://www.hca.nm.gov/comment-period-open-2025/ along with the applicable
register and rule. The public posting
will include the name and any contact information provided by the commenter.