Bill Text: HI SB2712 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Medicaid; Reimbursements

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-24 - (S) The conference committee deferred the measure. [SB2712 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2712-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2080

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2712

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2712 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to amend the definition of the term "medical institution" as it is currently defined in section 346-12, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to mean an institution created for the practice of medicine and for caring for patients on a long-term basis.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, the Department of the Attorney General, the Consumer Family & Youth Alliance, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that if a Medicaid recipient enters a "medical institution", the Department of Human Services is allowed to place a lien upon the real property of the recipient to potentially recover the payments made for the recipient's care.  However, under the existing definition of "medical institution", a recipient could argue that the facility in which the recipient resides in is not a medical institution, in order to prevent the Department of Human Services from putting a lien on the recipient's real property.  Your Committee finds that this measure will clarify which institutions are subject to section 346-29.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, thereby allowing the Department of Human Services to determine whether a lien may be properly placed on a Medicaid recipient's real property. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2712 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

		____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair