STATUTORY AUTHORITY:

A. Chapter 27 NMSA 1978 (1992 Repl.) provides for the health care authority (HCA) to "...adopt, amend and repeal bylaws, rules and regulations..." It also provides for administration of public assistance programs.

B. The ISD of the[ HSD ] HCA was created by the HCA secretary under authority granted by Paragraph (3) of Subsection B of Section 9-8-6 NMSA 1978.

C. Section 9-8-1 et seq. NMSA 1978 establishes the Health Care Authority as a single, unified department to administer laws and exercise functions relating to health care facility licensure and health care purchasing and regulation.

[8.100.640.3 NMAC - N, 09/30/2013 ; A, 7/1/2024]