New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 1 - HEALTH GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part 10 - ACCESS TO MEDICAL RECORDS BY DISABILITY APPLICANTS
Section 7.1.10.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Authorized representative" means a person who lawfully may act on behalf of the individual who is applying for social security disability or appealing a denial of such benefits and whose medical records are the subject of a request to furnish copies.

B. "Department" means the Division of Health Improvement of the Department of Health.

C. "Health care provider" means a person licensed or certified by the State of New Mexico, or otherwise authorized by law to provide health care services in New Mexico in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession, and includes facilities and entities that employ or contract with such a person, and it includes entities which maintain, process or store, medical records for such persons or facilities.

D. "Person" means an individual who has been a patient of a health care provider or health care facility.

E. "Medical records" means information in a medical or mental health patient file, including drug or alcohol treatment records, clinical notes, nurses' notes, history of injury, subjective and objective complaints, diagnostic and laboratory test results and interpretations of tests, reports and summaries of interpretations of tests and other reports, diagnoses and prognoses, bills, invoices, referral requests, consultative reports, and reports of any services requested by the medical care provider.