REPORT Title:

Health Coverage Dispute; External Review Panel; Physician Fee

Description:

Authorizes a fee to a physician member of an external review panel that reviews health coverage disputes. (SB763 HD1)

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

763

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

S.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

H.D. 1


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO EXTERNAL REVIEW PANELS.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 432E-6, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (d) to read as follows:

"(d) Members of the review panel shall be granted immunity from liability and damages relating to their duties under this section. The physician member of a review panel shall be paid a fee of $ for participation on each panel on which the physician serves. Both payment of the fee and selection of the physician member of the review panel shall be exempt from chapter 103D."

SECTION 2. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.