STAND. COM. REP. NO. 446

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 1092

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 1092 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID THIRD PARTY LIABILITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend third party liability provisions for Medicaid programs for payment as required under the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services.

Your Committee finds that updates to state law are necessary to conform to new third party liability requirements included in the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022. This measure requires liable third-party payers to be responsible for reimbursing Medicaid providers based on the standards of the Medicaid program and prohibits providers from denying payment based on other standards.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; 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 Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1092, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1092, H.D. 1, 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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GREGG TAKAYAMA, Chair