As used in the Fair Pricing for Routine Medical Care Act: A. "affiliated with" means that a person is: (1) employed by a hospital or health system; or (2) under a professional services agreement, faculty agreement or management agreement with a hospital or health system that permits the hospital or health system to bill on behalf of the person; B. "campus" means: (1) a hospital's main buildings; (2) the physical area immediately adjacent to a hospital's main buildings; (3) structures owned by a hospital that are not strictly contiguous to the main buildings but are located within two hundred fifty yards of the main buildings; or (4) any other area that has been determined by the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services, on an individual case-by-case basis, to be part of a hospital's campus; C. "facility fee" means a fee charged or billed by a hospital or health system for outpatient hospital services that is: (1) intended to compensate the health system or hospital for operational expenses; and (2) separate and distinct from a professional fee charged or billed by a hospital or health system for professional medical services; D. "freestanding emergency department" means a facility licensed by the health care authority that is separate from an acute care hospital and that provides twenty- four-hour emergency care to patients at the same level of care that a hospital-based emergency department delivers; E. "health facility" means a health facility or health agency required to be licensed by the health care authority pursuant to the Health Care Code [Chapter 24A NMSA 1978]; F. "health system" means a: (1) parent corporation of one or more hospitals and any person affiliated with the parent corporation through ownership, governance, membership or other means; or (2) hospital and any person affiliated with the hospital through ownership, governance, membership or other means; G. "hospital" means a health facility that is licensed by the health care authority as a hospital; H. "preventive health care service" means a service recommended by the United States preventive services task force; I. "rural" means a rural county or an unincorporated area of a partially rural county, as designated by the health resources and services administration of the United States department of health and human services; and J. "telehealth" means the use of electronic information, imaging and communication technologies, including interactive audio, video, data communications and store-and- forward technologies, to provide and support health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, transfer of medical data and education when distance separates the patient and the health care provider. History: Laws 2026, ch. 43, § 2.
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