STAND. COM. REP. NO.  383-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.B. No. 3231

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 3231 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to expand services to Medicaid and QUEST participants by adding chiropractic services as a benefit, limited to 24 visits per year.

     The Hawaii State Chiropractic Association testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Human Services (DHS) did not support this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Requiring DHS to submit a request to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to amend the State Medicaid Plan to include additional benefits for chiropractic services;

     (2)  Requiring DHS to submit a report to the Legislature upon receiving a response from CMS; and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3231, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3231, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health,

____________________________ JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair

____________________________ MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair