STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1169-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   S.B. No. 2093

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 2093, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to equalize medicaid and its contracted health plans reimbursement rates to:

     (1)  Acute care hospitals for patients occupying acute care licensed beds who are on a waitlist for long-term care; and

     (2)  Long-term care facilities with beds for patients with medically complex conditions who, prior to admission to the facility, were receiving acute care services at an acute care hospital.

     This measure also makes an unspecified appropriation for increased medicaid reimbursements.

The Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, The Queen's Health Systems, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii supported the measure.  The Department of Human Services opposed the measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 2, 2050, to promote further discussion.

     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 S.B. No. 2093, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2093, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, 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