STAND. COM. REP. NO.  360-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2293

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 2293 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to benefit Hawaii residents by providing increased access to medical care and creating more sustainable hospitals by continuing the Hospital Sustainability Program established in 2012.

The Queen's Health Systems, Hawaii Primary Care Association, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, and the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii supported this measure.  The Department of Human Services and Healthcare Association of Hawaii supported this measure with amendments.  

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing the in-patient hospital sustainability fee percentage from 2.455 to 2.175 for in-patient hospital service revenue;

(2)  Changing the exemption for hospitals with net out-patient revenue from $50,000,000 to $45,000,000; and

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

     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. 2293, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2293, 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,

____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair

____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair