27 NMSA 1978 (1992 Repl.) provides for the health care authority (HCA) to "...adopt, amend and repeal bylaws, rules and regulations...". It also provides for administration of public assistance programs. Section 9-8-1 et seq. NMSA 1978 establishes the HCA as a single, unified department to administer laws and exercise functions relating to health care facility licensure and health care purchasing and regulation.
N.M. Admin. Code § 8.150.410.3