Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2616 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require chiropractic services to be covered under medical assistance programs including Medicaid and QUEST.

The Hawaii State Chiropractic Association and many concerned individuals testified in support of this measure. The Department of Human Services (DHS) supported the intent of this measure.

Your Committees find that chiropractic care is as important as other forms of medical care to an individual's health and well being. There was testimony that including chiropractic care under Medicaid and QUEST may actually save money in the long-term because other medical costs would be reduced.

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2616, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2616, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.