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In New Mexico, a HIPAA release names who may receive your records and, as the state requires, names HIV/AIDS-related information expressly before a provider releases it.

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The person whose records the authorization releases. New Mexico regulates 4 of the five sensitive categories above the federal rule; the authorization carries each rule.

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A written authorization under the federal privacy rule that lets the providers and health plans holding your records disclose them to the people you name. It is the same document as a medical records release or an authorization to release health information. Federal law sets what it must contain: what is released, to whom, for what purpose, an expiration date or an expiration event that relates to the individual, your signature and the date, and the exceptions to the right to revoke and a description of how the individual may revoke the authorization.

New Mexico regulates HIV/AIDS-related information, mental health records, substance abuse treatment records and genetic information above the federal rule. The authorization names HIV/AIDS-related information expressly, as the state requires before a provider releases it. For HIV/AIDS-related information, the recipient's redisclosure notice prints in the words the statute prescribes.

Anyone: a spouse or partner, an adult child, a parent, a friend, an attorney, a caregiver, an office. Each is named by name, with a relationship and, where you give one, an address a provider may send records to. The people you name receive copies and information; the authorization gives them no power to make decisions, which is the healthcare power of attorney's work.

Federal law requires an expiration date or an expiration event that relates to the individual. The prepared authorization ends when you revoke it in writing or at your death, or on a date you choose if you set one. You revoke it by writing to each provider that received it; the one exception is a disclosure already made, where the covered entity has taken action in reliance thereon.

Psychotherapy notes: federal law requires an authorization for those alone, since an authorization for a use or disclosure of psychotherapy notes may only be combined with another authorization for a use or disclosure of psychotherapy notes. Substance abuse treatment records held by a federally assisted program follow their own federal consent rule the same way. The provider that holds those records supplies its form; this authorization covers everything else in your record, or everything except the categories you exclude.

The HIPAA Release in New Mexico

A HIPAA release, the authorization the federal privacy rule requires before a provider or health plan discloses your records to someone you choose, is one document under several names: a medical records release, an authorization to release health information, a HIPAA authorization. Federal law fixes its elements: what is released, to whom, for what purpose, an expiration date or an expiration event that relates to the individual, your signature and the date, and the exceptions to the right to revoke and a description of how the individual may revoke the authorization. New Mexico providers read it under that rule.

New Mexico regulates HIV/AIDS-related information, mental health records, substance abuse treatment records and genetic information above the federal rule, and the prepared document carries each rule where it applies. The authorization names HIV/AIDS-related information expressly in its EXPRESS CATEGORY CONSENT block, since the state requires that before a provider releases it. For HIV/AIDS-related information, the redisclosure notice to the recipient prints in the words the statute prescribes.

The New Mexico rules, category by category: HIV/AIDS-related information must be named in the authorization before release and the recipient receives a notice in the words the statute prescribes. Mental health records are released only under a written authorization. Substance abuse treatment records are released only under a written authorization. Genetic information is released only under a written authorization.

The authorization is signed and dated by you alone; no witness or notary is part of the federal elements, and New Mexico adds none for this authorization. Each provider acts on the copy it receives, so a signed copy goes to each office that holds records you want released.

The authorization ends when you revoke it in writing or at your death, or on a date you choose if you set one; federal law requires an expiration date or an expiration event that relates to the individual. Revocation is a letter to each provider that received the authorization. The one exception is a disclosure already made, where the covered entity has taken action in reliance thereon.

Psychotherapy notes stay outside it: an authorization for a use or disclosure of psychotherapy notes may only be combined with another authorization for a use or disclosure of psychotherapy notes. Substance abuse treatment records held by a federally assisted program follow their own federal consent rule the same way. The people you name receive information and copies and make no decisions for you; the New Mexico healthcare power of attorney names a decision-maker and appends this same authorization for the agent.

SimplyTrust Editorial·Updated October 21, 2026

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