STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1060

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 91

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce, to which was referred H.B. No. 91 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INSURANCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to remove ambiguity in Hawaii's clean claims statute to clarify the requirement that insurers provide timely reimbursement to health care providers for uncontested claims applies to acute care hospitals.

The Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, Legacy of Life Hawaii, The Queen's Health Systems, and Hawaii Pacific Health testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Amending the definition of health care facility to ensure that an acute care hospital is recognized as a health care facility; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 H.B. No. 91, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 91, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce,

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair