SANTA FE – The New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) has reached a settlement agreement/addendum with the remaining five behavioral health organizations who filed lawsuits against HSD claiming that they had been damaged when the Martinez administration froze Medicaid payments in 2013. 

Notice is hereby given that the New Mexico Graduate Medical Education Expansion Review Board and Advisory Group will convene a regular meeting on Friday, December 6, 2019. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. and will be held at the New Mexico Human Services Department’s Field Office at 1711 Randolph Road SE, Albuquerque, NM. The public is welcome.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, the Human Services Department and the Department of Health are excited to announce the development of a new Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) “Supports” Waiver to aid individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are waiting for Developmental Disabilities Waiver services. The Supports Waiver will be the State’s fourth Medicaid 1915 (c) HCBS waiver program serving individuals with special needs. Tribal leaders have been invited to a tribal consultation to be held on October 28, 2019.

Santa Fe, N.M. – The New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) Behavioral Health Services Division (BHSD) in collaboration with DEA 360 and The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation are partnering to host a statewide Youth Summit from Oct. 21-25, 2019, to promote community health and safety and educate attendees on the growing opioid epidemic. The summit will cover seven events in five cities over five days.

Santa Fe, N.M. – Human Services Department Cabinet Secretary David R. Scrase, M.D. announces the appointment of Neal A. Bowen, Ph.D. as the new director for the Behavioral Health Services Division (BHSD) beginning November 15, 2019.

Santa Fe, N.M. – New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) announced a new map that is being made available to the public showing which pharmacies across New Mexico carry naloxone – the medication used to reverse the effects of opioid-related overdoses. The map is currently available through New Mexico’s anti-opioid addiction website, “A Dose of Reality,” at https://doseofreality.com/naloxone/.