New Mexico Register / Volume XXXIII, Issue 22 / November 29, 2022
This is an amendment to 8.280.500 NMAC, Sections 8, 9, 11
and 23, effective 12/1/2022.
8.280.500.8 [RESERVED] MISSION
STATEMENT: To transform
lives. Working with our partners, we
design and deliver innovative, high quality health and
human services that improve the security and promote independence for New
Mexicans in their communities.
[8.280.500.8 NMAC - N, 12/1/2022]
8.280.500.9 NEED DETERMINATION: Eligibility
for PACE is determined prospectively. Applicants/recipients
must meet, or expect to meet, all financial eligibility criteria in the month
for which a determination of eligibility is made. Applicants for and recipients of medicaid through PACE must apply for, and take all
necessary steps to obtain, any income or resources to which they may be
entitled. Such steps must be taken
within [thirty (30)] 30 days of the date the human services
department (HSD) furnishes notice of the potential entitlement. Failure or refusal to apply for and take all
necessary steps to determine eligibility for other benefits after notice is
received results in an applicant/recipient becoming ineligible for medicaid.
A. Applicants/recipients who
have elected a lower [VA] veterans affairs (VA) payment do not need to reapply for veteran’s administration improved
pension (VAIP) benefits.
B. Crime victims are not required to accept victim’s compensation payments from a state-administered fund as a condition of medicaid eligibility.
[8.280.500.9 NMAC - Rp, 8 NMAC 4.PAC.500, 12/1/2006; A, 12/1/2022]
8.280.500.11 APPLICABLE
RESOURCE STANDARDS: An
applicant/recipient is eligible for medicaid on the
factor of resources if countable resources do not exceed [two thousand
dollars ($2,000)] $2,000. See
8.281.500.11 NMAC.
[8.280.500.11 NMAC - Rp, 8 NMAC 4.PAC.511, 12/1/2006; A, 12/1/2022]
8.280.500.23 MEDICAL
CARE CREDIT: There are medical care
credits in PACE only when a PACE recipient enters a nursing facility. See [8.281.500.23] 8.281.500.22
NMAC.
[8.280.500.23 NMAC - Rp, 8 NMAC 4.PAC.530, 12/1/2006; A, 12/1/2022]