STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2100

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 1237

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1237, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require health insurers who provide Medicare Advantage (Medicare Part C) health benefit plans to Hawaii residents to submit administrative data to the State Health Planning and Development Agency, or its designee, to be used for analysis of health care cost drivers to inform sound public policy.

The Department of Health, Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund Board of Trustees, State Health Planning and Development Agency, Office of Enterprise Technology Services, and University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa College of Social Sciences supported this measure. The Hawaii Association of Health Plans opposed this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1237, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair