Bill > SB83

This bill amends the Public Assistance Act to remove behavioral health services from the services that the Human Services Department provides to Medicaid recipients through managed care. The bill defines "behavioral health service" as a professional or ancillary service for the treatment, habilitation, prevention, and identification of mental illness, behavioral symptoms associated with developmental disability, a substance abuse disorder, or trauma spectrum disorders. The bill also allows the department to exclude nursing homes, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded, Medicaid in-home and community-based waiver services, and residential and community-based mental health services for children with serious emotional disorders from the managed care system.

Budget and Finance, Government Affairs

https://www.nmlegis.gov/Legislation/Legislation?chamber=S&legtype=B&legno=83&year=17