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An audit identifies potential fraud among some health providers in New Mexico. The state freezes Medicaid payments while the attorney general investigates, throwing organizations that serve 30,000 New Mexicans into crisis. Arizona providers prepare to fill the gap. Looking to get caught up on this developing story? Read this article.
Contrary to state officials’ claims, Gov. Susana Martinez’s Human Services Department could have chosen not to abruptly suspend all Medicaid payments to 15 behavioral health providers last month.
The N.M. Health Insurance Exchange Board has voted to open most – but not necessarily all – of its committee meetings to the public.
The state’s suspension of Medicaid payments to 15 behavioral health providers during the attorney general’s investigation of overbilling and other issues could disrupt services for thousands of patients across the state.
Despite dire warnings from industry executives, health-insurance companies aren’t proposing dramatic rate increases for those who buy policies through N.M.’s Health Insurance Exchange.
The state health insurance marketplace board has approved paying a contractor an unexpected $7.5 million to help tens of thousands of New Mexicans without health coverage learn in coming months about finding insurance.
COMMENTARY: On paper, the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange is one of the most transparent in the nation. But in practice, the exchange is struggling to live up to that standard.
Days ahead of an application deadline for $20 million in federal funding, the N.M. Human Services Department seized control of the request from the state’s independent Division of Insurance last month, documents and interviews show.
More than 30 protesters gathered Friday to oppose a planned uranium mine near Mt. Taylor, a peak held sacred by several Native tribes, but Forest Service officials say all the agency can do is attempt to mitigate the damage.