Selling a skilled nursing facility in New Mexico

New Mexico at a glance

New Mexico has 68 Medicare- and Medicaid-certified skilled nursing facilities with 6,880 certified beds, and on average 83.9% of those beds are occupied, above the national average of 80.3%.

Source: CMS Provider Information file, August 2026. The full New Mexico picture, rates and every building are on SNFRadar, the market record we built and publish free.

What a buyer reads first in New Mexico

The numbers a buyer pulls before the first call, for the typical New Mexico building against the nation. Your own building's are on its SNFRadar page.

Sources: CMS Provider Information file, August 2026 (occupancy, staffing, turnover, star ratings: averages across certified buildings); Medicare cost reports (full-year filings), as SNFRadar compares them (medians, the same figures each building's SNFRadar page is compared against).

What moves value in New Mexico

Occupancy. 83.9% of New Mexico's certified beds are occupied, above the national 80.3%. Full buildings are the norm here, so a buyer will ask why yours is not, or price in the referral strength if it is.

Payer mix and the Medicaid rate. Medicaid pays for 75% of resident days in the median New Mexico building, more than the national 66%. That makes the state's Medicaid rate method the biggest single input to most buildings' value, and the first thing a buyer models. New Mexico's Medicaid rate files are on SNFRadar.

Revenue and margin. Net patient revenue runs $419 per patient day in the median New Mexico filing, above the national $373, and the median net margin is -1.6% against 3.6%. With thin margins common, buyers price on what they can fix, so a seller who can show where the costs sit gets paid for it.

Staffing. New Mexico's buildings average 3.53 nurse staffing hours per resident per day, fewer than the national 3.86, and nurse turnover runs 53.3% a year against 45.8%. Buyers treat agency use and turnover as a cost they will inherit, so a stable staff is worth showing early.

Inspection record. 33% of New Mexico buildings are rated four or five stars by Medicare and 49% one or two, against 40% and 41% nationally. With low ratings common here, a clean inspection record stands out, and buyers pay for it.

Size and ownership type. The average New Mexico building has 101 certified beds, against 107 nationally. 85% are for-profit, 9% non-profit and 6% government, and 71% are part of a chain.

Where the beds are

New Mexico's largest counties by certified beds. Each opens that county's buildings on SNFRadar.

How a sale works

1. A first call. What you want from the sale, and when. No listing, no blast.
2. A value from the record. Your building's own numbers and the trades around it. How valuation works
3. Vetted buyers under confidentiality, bidding against each other, not against you.
4. Letter of intent, then the purchase agreement and the operations transfer agreement. The full process
5. Change of ownership. New Mexico's licensure filings plus Medicare and Medicaid, timed so billing does not stop. CHOW and Medicaid

Our recent closings

All five closings, with the press coverage they drew.

Questions owners ask