Three New Mexico Counties Had No Medicaid Behavioral Health Professionals In 2017

During 2017, three rural/frontier New Mexico counties had no Medicaid behavioral health professionals who could prescribe. These counties were among 19 New Mexico counties that had a median of less than two licensed behavioral health professionals per 1,000 Medicaid managed care members that year. Only 29% of licensed behavioral health professionals and about half of the state’s nearly 670,000 Medicaid managed care enrollees lived in rural or frontier counties. In addition to the three counties that had no behavioral health professionals, three rural or frontier counties had less than 1 per 1,000 enrollees, and 13 . . .