STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1167-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: S.B. No. 2330
S.D. 2
H.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2330, S.D. 2, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM,"
beg leave to report as follows:
(1) The use of revenues derived from the Hospital Sustainability Fee (Fee) to enhance reimbursement rates and the drawdown of matched federal funds;
(2) Fee assessment schedules, payment dates, and rates; and
(3) The applicability of the Program to various types of hospitals.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Clarifying that the revenues from the Hospital Sustainability Fee shall be used for any of, rather than all of, the reimbursement and matching purposes specified in the measure;
(2) Exempting rehabilitation and psychiatric hospitals from the outpatient Fee;
(3) Specifying that nothing in the Program shall require the Department of Human Services to exempt a facility from the Fee if it is not approved by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services;
(4) Changing its effective date to June 29, 2112, to encourage further discussion; and
(5) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2330, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2330, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services,
____________________________ DEE MORIKAWA, Chair |
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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