Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 763, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide an incentive for physicians to participate on external review panels by authorizing the payment of a fee to participating physicians.

The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs testified in support of this measure. The Hawaii Medical Service Association supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee finds that physician members of an external review panel must take time away from their medical practices to participate in hearings that are time consuming, thereby creating a disincentive for physicians to participate on review panels.

Your Committee has amended this bill by leaving the amount of the fee blank to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your

Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 763, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 763, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.