The department has the right to verify the accuracy of data provided by any data source. The verification may include requiring the data source to submit documentation sufficient to verify the accuracy of the data in question or to provide direct inspection during normal business hours of only the records and documents that pertain directly to the data in question; provided that no data source shall be required to expend more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) each year to comply with the provisions of this section.
History: Laws 1994, ch. 59, § 12; 2012, ch. 15, § 5.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2012 amendment, effective May 16, 2012, transferred the authority to verify data from the New Mexico health policy commission to the department of health; in the first sentence, after "The", deleted "commission" and added "department".