STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2697

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2186
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2186, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require licensing of
independent medical bill reviewers by the Insurance Commissioner.

     Your Committee finds that licensing a group of professionals
helps an industry gain a measure of respectability and consumer
confidence.  Licensing standardizes the minimum qualifications of
a profession, and assures a certain level of knowledge and
experience among its practitioners.  In the case of independent
medical bill reviewers the time has come to achieve these goals.
This measure is in response to industry efforts to improve the
quality of service provided by independent medical bill reviewers
by defining what they do and their qualifications for licensure.

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments
in keeping with proper drafting style.

     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 S.B. No.
2186, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2186, S.D.
2.

 
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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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