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.  1539-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2712

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2712, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to improve efficiency in the administration of the State's Medicaid program by:

 

     (1)  Defining the term "medical institution" as it relates to medical liens; and

 

     (2)  Requiring the Department of Human Services, in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, to revise the methodology for determining the level of acuity of nursing facility residents who are Medicaid recipients to set fair and equitable disbursement levels, and to develop a referral system for discharging patients from hospitals, nursing homes, and long-term care facilities based on the patient's acuity level.

 

     The Department of Human Services, Department of the Attorney General, Department of Health, and Pacific Renal Care Foundation provided comments on this measure.

 

 

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2712, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair