To be eligible for category 045, an applicant/recipient must be covered by medicare part A. The part A insurance is a free entitlement to social security beneficiaries who are 65 years of age or older or who have received social security disability payments for 24 months. Fully or currently insured workers, or their dependents, with end-stage renal disease are also covered under medicare.
N.M. Admin. Code § 8.245.400.9