Bill Text: HI HB1284 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Medicaid Fee Schedule Rate Increase

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB1284 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB1284-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1301

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 1284

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1284, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to increase payments to physicians for medicaid-eligible persons.

 

     More specifically, this measure:

 

(1)  Appropriates an unspecified amount to increase payments for physician services for the care of medicaid-eligible persons, including fee-for-service, QUEST physician services, and the QUEST expanded care program, and specifies how the funds appropriated shall be distributed by the Department of Human Services;

 

(2)  Requires the Department of Human Services to include in its supplemental budget request for fiscal year 2010-2011 a sum at least equal to the amount appropriated in this measure; and

 

(3)  Requires the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2010.

 

     Your Committee received four written comments on this measure.  The written comments may be reviewed on the Legislature’s website.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will help improve the State's health care system by increasing the amounts paid the providers of essential health care services.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the amount of the appropriation to $1; and

 

(2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2077,

 

to encourage further discussion.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1284, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1284, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair