N.M. Admin. Code § 7.30.15.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. Definitions beginning with "A": [RESERVED]
B. Definitions beginning with "B": "Behavioral health" means mental health, lifestyle and health behaviors, substance misuse, life stressors and crises.
C. Definitions beginning with "C": "Child" means a person below the age of 18.
D. Definitions beginning with "D": "Department" means the New Mexico department of health.
E. Definitions beginning with "E": [RESERVED]
F. Definitions beginning with "F": "FERPA" means Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
G. Definitions beginning with "G": [RESERVED]
H. Definitions beginning with "H":
(1) "Health" means a state of physical and mental well-being, not merely the absence of disease.
(2) "HIPAA" means Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
I. Definitions beginning with "I": [RESERVED]
J. Definitions beginning with "J": [RESERVED]
K. Definitions beginning with "K": [RESERVED]
L. Definitions beginning with "L": [RESERVED]
M. Definitions beginning with "M": "Medicaid" means medical assistance eligibility, pursuant to Title XIX of the Social Security Act, by the medical assistance division of the New Mexico health care authority.
N. Definitions beginning with "N": [RESERVED]
O. Definitions beginning with "O": [RESERVED]
P. Definitions beginning with "P":
(1) "Provider" means any individual or entity furnishing health care at the SBHC.
(2) "Primary health care" means basic care of a patient's health needs across a wide continuum, including preventive and well care as well as minor and acute illness or injury.
Q. Definitions beginning with "Q": [RESERVED]
R. Definitions beginning with "R": "Reproductive health" means state of wellbeing in all matters related to the reproductive system and to its functions and process.
S. Definitions beginning with "S":
(1) "School-based health center (SBHC)" means a health care clinic located in a school, a school campus or and is organized through school and health provider agreements and offer both physical and behavioral health care.
(2) "School-based health center program (program; SBHC program)" means the New Mexico department of health, school-based health center program.
(3) "SBHC site" means an individual SBHC clinic or access point.
(4) "SBHC system" means the SBHC sponsoring agency and all the school-based health centers operating under that entity.
(5) "Sponsoring agency" means an entity that provides, either directly or via contract with another entity, SBHC services that include (but need not be limited to):
(a) funding;
(b) staffing;
(c) clinical oversight;
(d) liability insurance; and
(e) billing support.
(6) "Student" means a child or adolescent who is enrolled in school.
T. Definitions beginning with "T": "Telehealth" means patient care via a two-way, real-time interactive communication between a patient and a medical or behavioral health provider at a distant site through telecommunications equipment that includes, at a minimum, audio and visual equipment.
U. Definitions beginning with "U": [RESERVED]
V. Definitions beginning with "V": [RESERVED]
W. Definitions beginning with "W": [RESERVED]
X. Definitions beginning with "X": [RESERVED]
Y. Definitions beginning with "Y": [RESERVED]
Z. Definitions beginning with "Z": [RESERVED]

Notes

N.M. Admin. Code § 7.30.15.7
Adopted by New Mexico Register, Volume XXXVI, Issue 09, May 6, 2025, eff. 5/6/2025

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