I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Under an agreement announced Thursday, the state’s behavioral health provider will not pay a “penalty,” but will underwrite two funds that will be used to pay to monitor their work and to help providers recover losses incurred when the company failed to pay them on time.
As soon as OptumHealth took over New Mexico’s behavioral health system, its claims management system failed under the crush of real-world use.
In October, New Mexico fined Optum more than $1 million and threatened to cancel its $1 billion contract for managing the state’s behavioral health services after hundreds of providers said they hadn’t been paid in months. Now the company says it is fixing the system–but the state may have to come up with Plan B if the situation doesn’t improve.
