New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 8 - SOCIAL SERVICES
Chapter 370 - OVERSIGHT OF LICENSED HEALTHCARE FACILITIES AND COMMUNITY BASED WAIVER PROGRAMS
Part 4 - HEALTH FACILITY SANCTIONS AND CIVIL MONETARY PENALTIES
Section 8.370.4.15 - CALCULATION OF AMOUNT OF CIVIL MONETARY PENALTY - DOUBLING FOR REPEAT DEFICIENCIES

A. General: In addition to doubling the base penalty, doubling the daily civil monetary penalty is authorized and is intended to eliminate repeat regulatory violations. Doubling occurs in instances where the facility was assessed a base penalty or a daily civil monetary penalty for class A or B deficiencies cited within the previous 24 months, and the facility is cited for noncompliance with one or more of the same regulations on the current survey or investigation for which the previous civil monetary penalty was assessed. The licensing authority has greater discretion to double the civil monetary penalty for class C deficiencies. Where the facility was assessed a civil monetary penalty for a class C deficiency within the previous 24 months, the civil monetary penalty may be doubled for the facility's noncompliance with the same regulation that previously was assessed as a class C deficiency. If such doubling of the civil monetary penalty results in civil monetary penalties in excess of $5,000 per day, then the civil monetary penalty is $5,000 per day.

B. Doubling; repeat class A or B deficiencies: The amount of the daily civil monetary penalty for a deficiency, as calculated above, shall be doubled for a second or subsequent violation of the same regulatory requirement or provision, the violation of which within the prior 24 month period, resulted in, or was part of a group of violations that resulted in, the imposition of intermediate sanctions or civil monetary penalties as class A or B deficiencies.

C. Doubling; repeat class C deficiencies: The amount of the daily civil monetary penalty may be doubled, in the discretion of the licensing authority, for a second or subsequent violation of the same regulatory requirement or provision, the violation of which within the prior 24 month period, resulted in, or was part of a group of violations that resulted in, the imposition of intermediate sanctions or in civil monetary penalties as a class C deficiency.