New Mexico § 27-2-12.26 - Qualified medicare beneficiary recipients; medicare part B coverage automatic enrollment

§ 27-2-12.26. Qualified medicare beneficiary recipients; medicare part B coverage automatic enrollment

A. The department shall provide for the automatic enrollment into medicare part B

coverage of individuals: (1) whom it deems eligible for participating in the qualified medicare beneficiary

program; and (2) who are not enrolled in medicare part B coverage. B. By August 1, 2019, the secretary shall adopt and promulgate rules to provide for

informing, in writing, applicants for and recipients of qualified medicare beneficiary

coverage that, if they are enrolled in the qualified medicare beneficiary program

and, at the time of enrollment they are not enrolled in medicare part B, they are

eligible for automatic enrollment in medicare part B coverage, regardless of whether

general or “open” enrollment of medicare part B beneficiaries is allowed under federal

law at the time a qualified medicare beneficiary program recipient enrolls in the

qualified medicare beneficiary program. C. As used in this section: (1) “ medicare part B ” means the supplemental medical insurance program provided under part B of Title

18 of the federal Social Security Act; and (2) “ qualified medicare beneficiary program ” means the joint state-federal medical assistance program that provides for payment

of recipients' premiums under part A of Title 18 of the federal Social Security Act

and recipients' coinsurance and deductible amounts on services covered under medicare

part B.