STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1444

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1413
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 1413, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO QUEST,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of
Human Services to apply the actuarially valid risk factor
adjustment derived from actual QUEST member experience in
calculating its compensation to QUEST providers.

     This bill is intended to adequately compensate community
health centers for treating the sickest and poorest of Hawaii's
population.  Your Committee believes that the State has an
obligation to community health centers to keep them financially
viable in order that they can continue to render necessary
medical services.  Without community health centers, this
population would go without medical care.

     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.
1413, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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