STAND. COM. REP. NO.  180

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   H.B. No. 700

      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 H.B. No. 700 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NONGOVERNMENT HEALTH PLAN PAYMENTS TO CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITALS AND FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTERS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to require mutual and internal benefit societies, health maintenance organizations, and health plans other than government payers to pay:

    

     (1)  Critical access hospitals no less than 101 percent of cost for services; and

 

     (2)  Federally qualified health centers no less than their respective prospective payment system rates.

 

     The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Lanai Women's Center dba Lanai Community Health Center, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation (HHSC), West Region of HHSC, Kauai Region of HHSC, Hawaii Primary Care Association, and Community Clinic of Maui submitted testimony in support of this bill.  Summerlin Life & Health Insurance Company opposed the measure.  Comments were submitted by the Hawaii Medical Services Association.

 

     To facilitate further discussion, your Committees have amended this measure by inserting an effective date of July 1, 2020.

 

     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 H.B. No. 700, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 700, 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,

 

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair