New Mexico Register / Volume XXXVII, Issue 16
/ August 25, 2026
This is an amendment
to 8.370.3 NMAC, Sections 1, 10 and 14, effective 9/1/2026.
8.370.3.1 ISSUING AGENCY: New Mexico health care authority (HCA), division of health improvement, health facility licensing and certification bureau.
[8.370.3.1 NMAC - Rp, 8.370.3.1 NMAC, 01/28/2025; A, 9/1/2026]
8.370.3.10 LICENSURE FEE SCHEDULE: Rates shall be charged, as indicated in the fee schedule shown in this section, upon initial and renewal application for an annual license and prior to issuance of a second temporary license. The fee for the first temporary license is included in the initial application fee. This rule applies to both initial and renewal of health facility licenses.
A. Hospitals: general hospitals, limited hospitals, children’s psychiatric hospitals, special hospitals to include orthopedic, children’s, psychiatric, alcohol & drug abuse treatment, rehabilitation, and other special hospital as identified;
|
Facility Types: |
Rate Per License |
Term limit |
|
Hospital bed rate |
$12.00 per bed |
Annually |
B. Assisted living facilities:
|
Facility Types: |
Rate Per License |
Term limit |
|
Assisted living base assessment rate |
$300.00 |
Annually |
|
Facility Types: |
Rate Per
License |
|
skilled nursing facilities |
$12.00 per bed |
|
intermediate care facilities |
$12.00 per bed |
|
intermediate care facilities for [ |
$12.00 per bed |
D. Outpatient health facilities:
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Facility Types: |
Rate Per License |
|
Health facilities providing outpatient medical
services |
$300.00 |
|
community mental
health centers |
$300.00 |
|
free standing hospice |
$300.00 |
|
home health
agency |
$300.00 |
|
diagnostic and treatment center |
$300.00 |
|
limited diagnostic and treatment center |
$300.00 |
|
rural health
clinic |
$300.00 |
|
Infirmary |
$300.00 |
|
new or innovative clinic |
$300.00 |
|
ambulatory surgical center |
$300.00 |
E. Other health facilities:
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Facility Types: |
Rate Per License |
|
Facilities
providing services for
end stage renal
disease |
$300.00 |
|
services
for end state
renal disease |
$300.00 |
|
renal transplantation center |
$300.00 |
|
renal dialysis center |
$300.00 |
|
renal dialysis facility |
$300.00 |
|
self dialysis unit |
$300.00 |
|
special
purpose renal dialysis facility |
$300.00 |
|
In home and
inpatient hospice care |
$300.00 |
|
Home health agencies |
$300.00 |
|
Rural emergency hospital |
$300.00 |
|
Freestanding birth centers |
$300.00 |
|
Adult
accredited residential treatment center |
$600.00 bi-annually +
$25 per bed |
|
Boarding homes: |
$300.00 |
F. Adult Day Care: Facilities providing adult day care and services for less than 24 hours a day for three or more clients in accordance with 8.370.20 NMAC
|
Facility Types: |
Rate Per License |
|
Adult day care
facilities |
$300.00 |
[8.370.3.10 NMAC - Rp, 8.370.3.10 NMAC, 1/28/2025; A, 9/1/2026]
8.370.3.14 RELATED REGULATIONS: The following is a list of regulations regarding licensure of health facilities within the jurisdiction of the licensing authority.
A. Requirements for acute care, limited services and special hospitals, New Mexico health care authority, 8.370.12 NMAC.
B. Requirements for long term care facilities, New Mexico health care authority, 8.370.16 NMAC.
C. Requirements for facilities providing outpatient medical services and infirmaries, New Mexico health care authority, 8.370.18 NMAC.
D. Requirements for in-home and inpatient hospice care, New Mexico health care authority, 8.370.19 NMAC.
E. Requirements for adult day care facilities, New Mexico health care authority, 8.370.20 NMAC.
F. Requirements for intermediate care facilities
for [the mentally retarded] individuals with intellectual
disabilities, New Mexico health care authority, 8.371.2 NMAC.
G. Requirements for end stage renal disease facilities, New Mexico health care authority, 8.370.24 NMAC.
H. Requirements for assisted living facilities for Adults, New Mexico health care authority, 8.370.14 NMAC.
I. Requirements for home health agencies, New Mexico health care authority, 8.370.22 NMAC.
J. Requirements for rural emergency hospitals, New Mexico health care authority, 8.370.13 NMAC.
K. Requirements for boarding homes, New Mexico health care authority, 8.370.15 NMAC.
L. Requirements for clinical laboratory improvement amendments, 42 CFR, Part 493, New Mexico health care authority.
M. Requirements for community mental health centers, New Mexico health care authority, 8.321.6 NMAC.
N. Requirements for freestanding birth centers, New Mexico health care authority, 8.370.17 NMAC.
O. crisis triage centers, New Mexico health care authority, 8.321.11 NMAC.
[8.370.3.14 NMAC - Rp, 8.370.3.14 NMAC, 1/28/2025; A, 9/1/2026]