THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2009

 

COMMITTEE ON HEALTH

Senator David Y. Ige, Chair

Senator Josh Green, M.D., Vice Chair

 

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION

Senator Rosalyn H. Baker, Chair

Senator David Y. Ige, Vice Chair

 

AMENDED NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Monday February 23, 2009

TIME:

3:00 PM

PLACE:

Conference Room 016

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 166

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Requires health insurance providers to provide parity of coverage for oral and intravenous chemotherapy.

 

HTH/CPN

SB 591

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Requires insurers that offer health care coverage to the regular employees of any group or association to offer the same coverage to part-time employees working at least 15 hours per week.  Requires the insurance commissioner to report to the legislature on cost-benefit.

 

HTH/CPN

SB 430

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Mandates health insurance coverage to screen for colorectal cancer by colonoscopy every 10 years, beginning at age 50.

 

HTH/CPN

SB 794

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HEALTH.

Requires health insurance providers to cover weight management and obesity prevention, evaluation, and guidance services for children.

 

HTH/CPN

SB 795

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Requires all health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to provide mandatory coverage for all policyholders, members, subscribers, and individuals from birth to age three for medically necessary early intervention services.

 

HTH/CPN

SB 940

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO INSURANCE.

Requires direct payment to the State for provision of pre-hospital ambulance treatment and transport services.

 

HTH/CPN

SB 1077

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE.

Establishes a temporary preventative health care task force to develop a plan to encourage health insurance providers to offer preventative health care plans to its members, enrollees, or new applicants.

 

HTH/CPN

SB 171

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO THE PATIENTS' BILL OF RIGHTS.

Amends the patients' bill of rights by prohibiting certain unfair or deceptive business practices by managed care plans, such as canceling, denying, or nonrenewing an enrollment or subscription because of a person's health status; prohibits rates for any individual that exceed 200% of the standard group rate.

 

HTH/CPN

SB 588

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO NONGOVERNMENT HEALTH PLAN PAYMENTS TO CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITALS AND FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTERS.

Requires health plans other than government payers, mutual and fraternal benefit societies, and health maintenance organizations to pay: (1) critical access hospitals no less than 101% of costs for services; and (2) federally qualified health centers no less than their respective prospective payment system rates.

 

HTH/CPN

SB 1220

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO THE HAWAII MEDICAL BOARD.

Affirmatively requires Hawaii medical board to adopt rules in accordance with the administrative procedure law.  Prohibits the issuing of statements that prescribe, interpret, or implement law or policy that lack a sound and demonstrable source of statutory authority.  Makes such statements void as against public policy.

 

HTH/CPN

SB 1264

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO MEDICAL TREATMENT.

Requires the Hawaii medical board to collect and publish information about physicians licensed in the State to allow consumers to make informed decisions in selecting physicians.

 

HTH/CPN

SCR 26

        Testimony

        Status

REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF REQUIRING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR COLONOSCOPY COLORECTAL CANCER SCREENING.

 

CPN/HTH, WAM

 

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES:  If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

Persons wishing to testify should submit testimony in one of the following ways by 4:00 p.m. the day prior to the hearing:

 

·         By Email:  Testimony may be emailed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Committee at HTHTestimony@Capitol.hawaii.gov .  Please indicate the measure, date and time of the hearing. Email sent to individual offices or any other Senate office will not be accepted.

 

·         By Web: Testimony may be submitted online if less than 4MB in size, at http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/emailtestimony.

 

·         In person:  1 copy of their testimony to the committee clerk, Room 215, State Capitol.

 

·         By fax:  Testimony may be faxed if less than 5 pages in length, to the Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Office at 586-6659 or 1-800-586-6659 (toll free for neighbor islands), at least 24 hours prior to the hearing.  When faxing, please indicate to which committee the testimony is being submitted and the date and time of the hearing.

 

Please note:  If you submit your written testimony after 4:30 p.m. the day prior to the hearing, please sign-in at the staff table to testify orally.  A copy of your testimony may not be available during the hearing but will be posted online for the public after the hearing. 

 

If you require special assistance or auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e., sign or foreign language interpreter or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk 24 hours prior to the hearing so arrangements can be made.

 

Please note:  All testimony received by the Hawaii Senate will be posted on the Hawaii Legislature's Website.  Documents made available through the Testimony hyperlink(s) above may not be posted until the start of the hearing.

 

Public Folder.  A folder labeled “Public Folder” containing the measures and testimonies for the hearing will be available for shared use by members of the public.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6363.

 

 

 

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Senator Rosalyn H. Baker

Chair

 

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Senator David Y. Ige

Chair