Section 27-2-43 - Definitions. - New Mexico Statutes

27-2-43. Definitions.

As used in the Indigent Catastrophic Illness Hospital Funding Act [27-2-41 to NMSA 1978]:   

A.     "department" means the human services department;   

B.     "fund" means the indigent catastrophic illness hospital fund;   

C.     "hospital" means any general or special hospital that is licensed by the health and environment department [department of health] and that has annual gross charges for medicare, medicaid and indigent patients greater than ten percent of the hospital's total annual gross charges; and   

D.     "medically indigent patient" means an individual who is a New Mexico resident who incurs hospital charges, who is not eligible for medicaid or medicare and whose family or household income does not exceed two hundred fifty percent of the federal poverty level.