Section 27-11-2 - Definitions.
27-11-2. Definitions.
As used in the Medicaid Provider Act [27-11-1 NMSA 1978]:
A. "department" means the human services department;
B. "managed care organization" means a person eligible to enter into risk-based prepaid capitation agreements with the department to provide health care and related services;
C. "medicaid" means the medical assistance program established pursuant to Title 19 of the federal Social Security Act and regulations issued pursuant to that act;
D. "medicaid provider" means a person, including a managed care organization, operating under contract with the department to provide medicaid-related services to recipients;
E. "person" means an individual or other legal entity;
F. "recipient" means a person whom the department has determined to be eligible to receive medicaid-related services;
G. "secretary" means the secretary of human services; and
H. "subcontractor" means a person who contracts with a medicaid provider to provide medicaid-related services to recipients.