Organizations

• Physicians for Patient Choice
• Physicians for Responsible Negotiation
• National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)

Patient Resources

• Physicians for Patient Choice

Physician Resources

• AMA Model Managed Care Medical Services Agreement
• Physicians for Patient Choice
• Physicians for Responsible Negotiation

New Mexico Medicaid ¡Salud! Program

¡Salud! Combined Prior Authorization Request Form - The three New Mexico ¡Salud! managed care organizations have agreed upon a common prior authorization request form. For now, this form must be downloaded, printed, completed and faxed to the appropriate MCO. NMMS has requested that the MCOs also accept this information electronically. If one or more MCOs agree, we will post an online version of this form here as well. The form is an MS Word document, saved in a file format which will work on all versions from Win95 onwards. Click here to download the PA Form

The ¡Salud! Comparative Formulary is now available online in regular Web format (with hypertext indexing) as well as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file* which you may download to your computer.

¡Salud! Comparative Formulary online. (Current as of January 1, 2000.)

Download ¡Salud! Comparative Formulary. (Current as of January 1, 2000.) This is a PDF file and will take several minutes to download; time will vary with modem and connection speed.

* You must have Adobe Acrobat reader software to view the PDF file. This is available for all operating systems as a free download from Adobe. (Clicking on the 'Adobe' link in the preceeding sentence will open up the Acrobat download page in a new window. When you're done downloading, this page you're reading now will still be open on your computer.)

NOTE: The New Mexico Medical Society is providing the ¡Salud! Comparative Formulary as a service, on behalf of the New Mexico Human Services Department. NMMS makes no warrant as to the accuracy of any information provided in these documents. The link above is actually to a file being maintained by New Mexico Medicaid Drug Utilization Review at the University of New Mexico College of Pharmacy. We wish to gratefully acknowledge the DUR program for doing the work to make this PDF file available for public use.

Please direct any questions regarding the content of this document to the ¡Salud! service providers (telephone numbers are included in the Introduction section of the formulary).

Questions or comments of a general nature please e-mail Chuck Reynolds, R.Ph.

The Managed Care Issues Report Form

Health Systems, Public Health

• Illinois HMO Guide - done by the Illinois State Medical Society. This is a very comprehensive study, and is possibly a prototype for a similar effort that could be done in New Mexico. Full text of the study is available online.
• Health Systems Tutorial - A hypertext study of different healthcare systems. University of Wisconsin.
• Cochrane Collaboration - at McMaster University (Canada), committed to the creation, maintenance and dissemination of systematic overviews of the effects of health care.
• Whitehouse Healthcare Statistics Briefing Room - Charts and tables present U.S. leading causes of death, visits to physicians offices by specialty, use of health services, statistics on substance abuse, chronic illness data, health care expenditures paid out-of-pocket vs. private insurance, etc.
• New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence - Comprehensive information about DV resources in New Mexico, and gateway to dozens of organizations and educational resources on the Net.
  
  Domestic Violence Physicians' Reference Card
• AHCPR - Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (NIH)
• HSTAT - Health Systems Technology Assessment Text (NIH)