Bill Text: HI SB2472 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Patient-Centered Medical Homes; Healthcare Transformation Coordinator; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-08 - (H) Referred to HUS/HLT, CPC, FIN, referral sheet 41 [SB2472 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2472-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2777

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2472

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2472, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PATIENT-CENTERED MEDICAL HOMES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to improve the delivery of health care services provided under med-QUEST plans.

 

Specifically, the measure improves the delivery of health care by:

 

     (1)  Establishing the med-QUEST patient-centered medical home initiative;

 

     (2)  Identifying responsibilities for the coordination and evaluation of the patient-centered medical home model; and

 

     (3)  Appropriating funds for these purposes.

 

     Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Office of the Governor, State of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee finds that, among many other troubling issues, uncoordinated health care results in duplicative procedures, conflicting treatment recommendations, unnecessary hospitalizations and nursing home placements, and adverse drug reactions.  Your Committee further finds that this measure will provide improved outcomes for patients and better services for enrollees in state medicaid programs.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the Department of Human Services shall present an overview of the program's design to the Legislature;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (3)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2472, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2472, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair