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This bill establishes the Health Security Act to provide comprehensive statewide health care coverage in New Mexico. The key provisions of the bill include: - Creating a Health Care Commission to administer and oversee the health security plan, which will provide health care coverage to all New Mexico residents. The commission will be responsible for establishing the plan's benefits, budgets, provider payments, and cost-containment measures. - Requiring the commission to design the health security plan to provide comprehensive, necessary, and appropriate health care services, including preventive and primary care. The plan will cover a range of services and gradually phase in eligibility for all New Mexicans. - Establishing regional health care delivery systems and councils to address regional health care needs and concerns. - Prohibiting discrimination by health care providers and facilities against beneficiaries on the basis of various factors, and providing beneficiaries with rights regarding claims review, appeals, and grievance procedures. - Requiring the commission to maximize federal contributions and payments for health care services provided in New Mexico. - Directing the legislative finance committee to conduct a fiscal analysis of the proposed health security plan before it is enacted.

Health and Social Services

https://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/legislation.aspx?chamber=H&legtype=B&legno=295&year=19