Bill Text: HI SCR210 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Committee on the creation of a Hawaii all-payer health claims database.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-12 - (H) Referred to HLT/CPC, FIN, referral sheet 67 [SCR210 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR210-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3085

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 210

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 210, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE CREATION OF A HAWAII ALL-PAYER HEALTH CLAIMS DATABASE FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRANSPARENT PUBLIC REPORTING OF HEALTH CARE INFORMATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Insurance Commissioner to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations regarding the creation and maintenance of a Hawaii all-payer claims database for the purpose of publicly reporting health care and health quality data at all levels of health care.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Hawaii Medical Association and the Healthcare Association of Hawaii.  The Legislative Reference Bureau submitted testimony commenting on this measure.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that consumers do not currently have the informational resources necessary to compare the safety, quality, costs and efficiency of hospitals or doctors.  Consequently, consumers are left to make health care decisions, including life and death decisions, without the benefit of access to care and quality records of physicians and health facilities.  An all-payer claims database will report this kind of health care and health quality data at all levels of care in an easily understood and accessible manner, thus providing consumers with the knowledge necessary to make informed decisions about their health care.

 

Your Committee further finds that an advisory committee will identify and address barriers to establishing an all-payer health claims system, which will greatly increase the likelihood of successful development and implementation of the system.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requesting that the advisory committee submit its proposals and any draft legislation to the Legislative Reference Bureau for drafting by November 15, 2010.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 210, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 210, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection,

 

		____________________________ ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair