Subsection E of Section 9-7-6 NMSA 1978 and Section 43-2-5 NMSA 1978. Section 9-8-1 et seq. NMSA 1978 establishes the health care authority 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 § 8.321.8.3