Section 61-7-4 - Health care provider boards; additional powers and duties. - New Mexico Statutes

61-7-4. Health care provider boards; additional powers and duties.

A.     If the board has reasonable cause to believe that a health care provider licensed, registered or certified to practice in this state is unable to practice with reasonable skill and safety to patients because of a condition described in Section 61-7-3 NMSA 1978, the board shall appoint an examining committee as described in Subsection B of this section to examine the health care provider and shall, following the examination, take appropriate action within the provisions of the Impaired Health Care Provider Act.   

B.     The appropriate board shall designate three licensed health care providers to be members of an examining committee.