New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 250 - MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY - QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS WHOSE INCOME EXCEEDS QMB AND SLIMB (CATEGORY 045)
Part 600 - BENEFIT DESCRIPTION
Section 8.250.600.3 - STATUTORY AUTHORITY

New Mexico Statutes Annotated, 1978, (Chapter 27, Articles 1 and 2) authorizes the state to administer the medicaid program. Section 4732 of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act creates a separate group of eligible individuals, to be known as qualified individuals 1 (QI1s), with income between one hundred twenty percent and one hundred thirty-five percent of the federal poverty level. The benefit is limited to the payment of the monthly medicare part B insurance premium. Funding is available under one hundred percent federal block grant money. 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.