STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1361

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 120

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 120 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO ASSESS THE SOCIAL AND FINANCIAL EFFECTS OF PROPOSED MANDATORY HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE MONITORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Auditor to assess the social and financial effects of proposed mandatory health insurance coverage for continuous glucose monitors.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Health Planning and Development Agency, State Council on Developmental Disabilities, Hawaii Medical Association, Liberty Dialysis Hawaiʻi, Hilo Benioff Medical Center Foundation, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that diabetes detection and treatment, ongoing self-management, and improved delivery of care are critical in preventing and reducing the burden of diabetes in the State. Your Committee further finds that a non-adjunctive continuous glucose monitor can be used to make treatment decisions without the need for a stand-alone blood glucose test to confirm testing results for diabetes patients. Your Committee believes that effective glucose management can improve health outcomes and decrease complication risks for renal disease, non-traumatic lower extremity amputations, and blindness in diabetic patients. This resolution is a step towards mandatory health insurance coverage for continuous glucose monitors, that will allow the State to make an informed decision to improve access to diabetes care and support patients with diabetic chronic diseases, particularly those in underserved and rural areas of the State.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 120, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 120, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health and Human Services,

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JOY A. SAN BUENAVENTURA, Chair