The Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign has been working to achieve Universal Healthcare in NM for some years. The document below is not quite up to date on the current status of legislation in the NM Legislature as of 2026. GPT provides an updater below the PDF.
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The project itself appears to have continued beyond that. The New Mexico Legislature issued an RFP on April 18, 2025 for analyses addressing cost drivers in New Mexico’s Medicaid program and hospital/independent medical practice administrative costs. The schedule in that RFP shows proposals due in May 2025 and contract finalization targeted for June 2025.
One more important detail: in the 2025 session, HB 349 proposed a total health care expenditure database and called for an RFP by October 1, 2025, but the New Mexico Legislature’s bill page shows that bill died in committee. So parts of the cost-driver agenda continued as research and procurement work, but not every legislative piece advanced.
I also found a later legislative report, presented in September 2025, titled “New Mexico Healthcare Expenditures Data Needs.” It is directly tied to the cost-driver effort and discusses building the data infrastructure needed to identify healthcare cost drivers in New Mexico.
Here is the lengthy NM Healthcare Expenditures Data Needs report prepared by Suzan Reagan, Sr. Program Manager, Bureau of Business and Economic Research and Dr. Kramer Winingham, Director, Economic Analysis, Arrowhead Center at NMSU for the New Mexico Legislative Council Service.
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Arrowhead Center and the Bureau of Business and Economic Research would like to thank Mary Feldblum.
Without her energetic support of research into economic factors of healthcare costs and the need for a
Healthcare Expenditure Database, this report might not exist.
We would also like to thank the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee (LHHSC)
Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino, Chair,
and Representative Elizabeth “Liz” Thomson, Vice Chair,
and Representative Eleanor Chavez District 26 Bernalillo County
for funding this report