The New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) is announcing its intention to raise Medicaid hospital payment rates effective July 1, 2019, as part of Governor Lujan Grisham’s focus on health care and as a critical step in fulfilling her promise to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for providers at the center of New Mexico’s health care safety net. 

reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient services by $168.7 million effective July 1.

The hospital reimbursement increases are part of a multi-phase strategy to address the low Medicaid reimbursement rates for those who deliver care and services to the most vulnerable New Mexicans and help rebuild and protect New Mexico’s health care delivery network. 

HSD  announces intention to raise certain Medicaid provider payment rates effective July 1, 2019, as part of Governor Lujan Grisham’s focus on health care and as a critical first step in fulfilling her promise to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for providers at the center of New Mexico’s health care safety net. 

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday announced her plan to raise certain Medicaid provider rates by $60 million effective July 1. 

The New Mexico Human Service Department (HSD) announces that it has improved the efficiency of processing new, renewal and emergency Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) applications to above the federal timeliness standard of 95 percent for all its 34 locations since Oct. 1, 2018.