N.M. Stat. § 27-2-44
Current through 2024, ch. 69
The "indigent catastrophic illness hospital fund" is created as a nonreverting fund in the state treasury. Money in the fund is appropriated to the authority to reimburse hospitals for eligible claims for hospital charges incurred by medically indigent patients and for paying administrative costs of the authority not to exceed three percent of the annual appropriation or other distribution or transfer to the fund. Money in the fund shall be invested as provided for other state funds and income earned on the fund shall be credited to the fund.
NMS § 27-2-44