STAND. COM. REP. NO. 539

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1237

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1237 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the State Health Planning and Development Agency to mandate the submission of Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C) administrative data and health care service claims.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Department of Health, Executive Office on Aging, Office of Enterprise Technology Services, and State Health Planning and Development Agency.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund Board of Trustees.

 

     Your Committee finds there is a need for improved health care data analytics to address health care cost drivers in the State.  Data from an all-payer claims database with Medicare Advantage data will provide a comprehensive Medicare data set, which can be used to effectively plan for Hawaii's aging population and the accompanying increase in medical expenditures by the state and federal governments.  Your Committee further finds this measure will facilitate greater transparency in the health care sector and improve understanding of health care costs, health care system quality, population health conditions, and health care disparities.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1237, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1237, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

 

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair