THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator David Y. Ige, Chair

Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Vice Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013

DATE:	Friday, April 5, 2013
TIME:	10:30am
PLACE:	Conference Room 211 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

HB 152, HD1, SD1 (SSCR965) Status & Testimony	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION MEDICAL FEE SCHEDULES. Increases maximum allowable medical fees under workers' compensation to 130 percent of the Medicare Resource Based Relative Value Scale.  (SD1)	JDL, WAM
HB 152, HD1, SD1 (SSCR965) Proposed SD2 Status & Testimony	RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION MEDICAL FEE SCHEDULES. Requires the auditor to conduct a study on various aspects of the workers' compensation medical fee schedules and system in the State, including the sufficiency of current rates to provide access to the State's physicians that are willing to serve workers' compensation patients and fiscal impacts of increasing fee schedules. (Proposed SD2)	JDL, WAM
	Copies of the proposed SD2 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website: www.capitol.hawaii.gov

No testimony will be accepted.

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-6230.