New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 201 - MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY - MEDICAID EXTENSION (CATEGORY 01, 03 and 04)
Part 500 - INCOME AND RESOURCE STANDARDS
Section 8.201.500.3 - STATUTORY AUTHORITY

The New Mexico medicaid program is administered pursuant to regulations promulgated by the federal department of health and human services under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, as amended, and by the state health care authority pursuant to state statute. See Section 27-2-12 et seq. NMSA 1978 (Repl. Pamp. 1991). Section 9-8-1 et seq. NMSA 1978 establishes the health care authority (HCA) as a single, unified department to administer laws and exercise functions relating to health care facility licensure and health care purchasing and regulation.