STAND. COM. REP. NO.  157-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 1954

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1954 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to specify the rate of reimbursement by Medicaid and its contracted health plans to hospitals for patients occupying acute-licensed beds who are waitlisted for long-term care and to facilities with long-term care beds for patients with medically-complex conditions who prior to admission to the facility were receiving acute care services in an acute care hospital.

Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Kaiser Permanente, Policy Advisory Board for Elder Affairs, and two individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Human Services testified in opposition to this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1954 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair