STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1309-16
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2016
RE: S.B. No. 2667
S.D. 1
H.D. 2
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred S.B. No. 2667, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Requires health insurers to treat claims for payment that are in all aspects correctly filed and priced, otherwise known as clean claims, in the same manner as uncontested claims for purposes of payment timeframes; and
(2) Repeals the exemption of Medicaid claims from the definition of clean claims.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Enabling a claim for services through a self-insured employer group to be recognized as a clean claim; and
(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2016.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2667, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2667, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,
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____________________________ ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair |
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