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New Mexicans who have Medicaid, with the exception of Native Americans (they can enroll or choose to opt-out of Centennials Care), select an MCO to manage their health care.

This includes people on Centennial Care, Developmental Disabilities Waiver, Medically Fragile Waiver, and Mi Via Waiver.

For more information about the New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department (ALTSD) please visit http://www.nmaging.state.nm.us/

DDPC members and small staff work on ways to improve the quality of life for individuals with disabilities in New Mexico.

https://www.nmddpc.com/

Program Description:
The NM Office of Guardianship provides a statewide, publicly funded guardianship services program for guardians of "last resort” to incapacitated income and resource-eligible adults. We also provide Mental Health Treatment Guardians for appointments by the courts. Our clients include adults with a primary diagnosis of a mental defect due to a disease process or congenital defect (for example a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury, behavioral health disorder, dementia, or other related conditions) that affects the adjudicated incapacitated person’s ability and capacity to care for him/herself.

Program Function:
Our Office of Guardianship provides contracts for “Corporate Guardians” and for legal services. Legal services for guardianship court proceedings include Petitioning Attorney, Guardian Ad Litem (GAL), and Court Visitor. We also contract with the National Alliance for Mental Illness for making treatment guardians available to the courts state-wide.

Income and Resource Eligible:
the alleged incapacitated person must be financially eligible for institutional Medicaid (income does not exceed 225% of the federal poverty level (2008 Poverty Guidelines), and countable resources cannot exceed $2,000.00 (Burial accounts up to $1,540.00 are not included). For legal services, where the proposed guardian is not a contracted service provider, the proposed guardian’s household gross income must not exceed 300% of the federal poverty level.

Relation to the larger agency of DDPC:
The NM Office of Guardianship is under the NM Developmental Disabilities Planning Council. The guardianship program only relates to the appointment of guardians as decision-makers for mentally incapacitated adults. Five members of the Guardianship Committee for the DDPC Council are official members of our Guardianship Council (GC) established to advise and assist our office, including policies, rules, procedures, roles, complaint trends, legislative changes, quality assurance, training, and feedback. 

https://www.nmddpc.com/guardianship_program

National Guardianship Association (NGA) Web Site

NGA Standards for Guardians and Guardianship

New Mexico Guardianship Association (NMGA) Web Site

New Mexico Standards and Regulations for Guardians and Guardianship

District Court - Senate Bill 19 makes major changes to Family and Corporate Guardianship

Providing information and advocacy, HCBSadvocacy.org is a platform for the aging and disability communities to post information and resources regarding the new HCBS settings rule and steps each state is making to comply with the new rule.

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Assistance Division (HSD/MAD) Comagine Health conducts:

• Reviews of initial and annual Level of care (LOC) requests.
• Service and support plan (SSP) reviews.
• Budget reviews

Contact Comagine Health when you have questions or need help with:

• Scheduling In-Home Assessment (IHA)
• Understanding Requests for Information (RFI)

Understanding Requests for Administrative Actions (RFA) Status of submissions can be viewed in the Jiva Provider Portal. Please work with your consultant, who has Jiva access, for status of submissions. You can call Comagine Health Monday-Friday from 8:00am-5:00pm at: 1-866-962-2180