New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 13 - INSURANCE
Chapter 10 - HEALTH INSURANCE
Part 28 - PROVIDER PAYMENT AND PROVIDER CREDENTIALING REQUIREMENTS
Section 13.10.28.2 - SCOPE

A. Applicability. This rule applies to all health carriers, including health maintenance organizations, individual health plans, group and blanket plans, provider service networks, non-profit healthcare plans and third-party payers or their agents that provide, offer or administer health benefit plans, including health benefit plans and managed health care plans subject to the insurance laws and regulations of this state. This rule also applies to all health care providers who are licensed to provide health-related services in this state.

B. Timely Payments. This rule addresses the timely payment to providers by health carriers for covered services that have been provided to the carrier's enrollees or covered persons, the credentialing process by which health carriers review and select providers who apply to join carriers' networks, and a dispute resolution process to be utilized by providers and health carriers to resolve differences pertaining to provider credentialing and payment for covered services.

C. Exclusions. This rule does not impose any requirement on health carriers as to which providers must be accepted into health carriers' networks, specify terms of contracts established between health carriers and providers, establish standard reimbursement rates for payment by health carriers to in- or out-of-network providers for services, or interpret terms of any contract established between a health carrier and its enrollees or covered persons.