STAND. COM. REP. NO.  283

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

RE:   H.B. No. 91

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health, 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 that the requirement that insurers provide timely reimbursement to health care providers for uncontested claims applies to acute care hospitals.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from American Organization of Nursing Executives, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, The Queen's Health Systems, East Hawaii Region of Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, and Hawaii Pacific Health.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 91 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health,

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair