Purpose of Indigent Hospital and County Health Care Act.

The purpose of the Indigent Hospital and County Health Care Act is: A. to recognize that each individual county of this state is the responsible agency for ambulance transportation, hospital care or the provision of health care to indigent patients domiciled in that county, as determined by resolution of the board of county commissioners, in addition to providing support for the state's medicaid program; B. to recognize that the counties of the state are responsible for supporting indigent patients by providing local revenues to match federal funds for the state medicaid program pursuant to Section 7-20E-9 NMSA 1978 and the transfer of funds to the county-supported medicaid fund pursuant to the Statewide Health Care Act [Chapter 27, Article 10 NMSA 1978]; and C. to recognize that the counties of the state can improve the provision of health care to indigent patients by providing local revenues for countywide or multicounty health planning.