Bill Text: HI SB1140 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Health Plan Payments; Critical Access Hospitals; Federally Qualified Health Centers

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1140 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1140-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1039

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1140

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 1140, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure the financial strength of Hawaii's critical access hospitals (CAH) and federally qualified health centers (FQHC) by requiring health plans, other than government payors and limited benefit health insurance policy insurers, licensed to do business in this state, to reimburse CAHs and FQHCs at rates consistent with Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and Hawaii Primary Care Association supported this bill.  The Hawaii Medical Service Association and the Hawaii Association of Health Plans opposed this measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion; and

 

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1140, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1140, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,

 

 

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair		____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair