New Mexico Statutes Chapter 59A. Insurance Code § 59A-23F-12. Health care affordability plan; rulemaking; reporting requirements

(1) provide enhanced premium and cost-sharing assistance to individuals and families for the purchase of qualified health plans on the New Mexico health insurance exchange. In providing this assistance, the superintendent shall develop health care affordability criteria designed to reduce the amount that individuals pay in premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses for qualified health plans offered on the New Mexico health insurance exchange; and

(2) establish income eligibility parameters for the health care affordability criteria for plan year 2023 and each subsequent calendar year based on available funds. New Mexico residents who qualify shall have an income that is eligible for advanced premium tax credits under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

(1) details about health care benefits;

(2) health care affordability criteria designed to reduce the amount that individuals pay in premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses under the plan and that result in, to the greatest extent possible, health care costs comparable to costs for New Mexico residents for whom assistance is provided under Subsection A of this section; and

(3) income eligibility parameters that prioritize eligibility for New Mexico residents with incomes under two hundred percent of federal poverty level.

(1) a summary of the affordability criteria implemented pursuant to Subsections A and B of this section;

(2) the estimated number of uninsured New Mexico residents who enrolled in coverage following implementation of the affordability criteria pursuant to Subsections A and B of this section; and

(3) the amount in reduced costs and coverage assistance the initiatives provided in the current and previous calendar years by income level, county and coverage source.