STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1203-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 2929
S.D. 1
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2929, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID REIMBURSEMENT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Extend from June 30, 2003, to July 1, 2008, the deadline by which hospital-based and nonhospital-based Medicaid reimbursement rates for institutionalized long-term care must be made equal; and
(2) Make permanent the provision that payments to critical access hospitals be calculated on a cost basis using Medicare reasonable cost principles.
The Department of Human Services (DHS), Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and Hawaii Long Term Care Association testified in support of this bill.
Your Committee notes that DHS brought up a concern regarding the language in section 2 of this measure which repeals the sunset date established in Act 226, Session Laws of Hawaii (SLH) 2000. DHS stated that it would like the language to be consistent with that in S.B. No. 2608, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, which also amends Act 226, SLH 2000.
Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to promote further discussion.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2929, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2929, S.D. 1,
H.D. 1.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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