A. A health insurer aggrieved pursuant to the Vaccine Purchasing Act may appeal as provided in Section 59A-4-20 NMSA 1978.
B. A health insurer or group health plan that fails to file a report required by the office of superintendent pursuant to Subsection A of Section 6 [24-5A-6 NMSA 1978] of the Vaccine Purchasing Act shall pay a late filing fee of five hundred dollars ($500) per day for each day from the date the report was due.
C. The office of superintendent may require a health insurer or group health plan subject to the Vaccine Purchasing Act to produce records that were used to prepare the report required under Subsection A of Section 6 of the Vaccine Purchasing Act. If the office of superintendent determines that there is other than a good faith discrepancy between the number of insured children reported and the number of insured children that should have been reported, the health insurer or group health plan shall pay a civil penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each report filed for which the office of superintendent determines there is such a discrepancy.
D. Failure of a health insurer or group health plan to make timely payment of an amount invoiced pursuant to Subsection D of Section 3 [24-5A-3 NMSA 1978] of the Vaccine Purchasing Act shall subject the health insurer or group health plan to a civil penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each day from the date the payment is due.
History: Laws 2015, ch. 5, § 7.
ANNOTATIONSEmergency clauses. — Laws 2015, ch. 5, § 10 contained an emergency clause and was approved March 20, 2015.