The bill establishes the New Mexico Health Care Authority in July 2024. Also amends the Primary Care Council’s duties to:
– Analyze the proportion of health care delivery expenditures allocated to primary care statewide annually.
– Develop a five-year plan to determine how primary care investment could increase access to primary care and improve the quality of primary care services while also lowering the costs of primary care delivery.
– Review national and state models of optimal primary care investment to increase access to and improve the quality of primary care services.
