Bill Text: HI HB1438 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Medical Care.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. [HB1438 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-HB1438-Introduced.html
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
relating to medical care.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 346-59, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§346-59 Medical care and long-term supports and services payments. (a) The department shall adopt rules under chapter 91 concerning payment to providers of medical care. The department shall determine the rates of payment due to all providers of medical care and long-term supports and services and pay such amounts in accordance with the requirements of the appropriations act and the Social Security Act, as amended. Payments to critical access hospitals for services rendered to medicaid beneficiaries shall be calculated on a cost basis using medicare reasonable cost principles.
(b) Rates of payment to providers of medical care who are individual practitioners, including doctors of medicine, dentists, podiatrists, psychologists, osteopaths, optometrists, and other individuals providing services, shall be based upon the Hawaii medicaid fee schedule. The amounts paid shall not exceed the maximum permitted to be paid individual practitioners or other individuals under federal law and regulation, the medicare fee schedule for the current year, the state limits as provided in the appropriation act, or the provider's billed amount.
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appropriation act shall indicate the percentage of the medicare fee schedule
for the year 2000 to be used as the basis for establishing the Hawaii medicaid
fee schedule. For any subsequent
adjustments to the fee schedule, the legislature shall specify the extent of
the adjustment in the appropriation act.]
(c) In establishing the payment rates for other
noninstitutional items and long-term supports and services, the rates
shall not exceed the current medicare payment[,]; the state
limits as provided in the appropriation act[,]; the rate
determined by the department, which shall be reviewed for services without
medicare comparisons on a consistent schedule but no longer than five years in
duration; or the provider's billed amount.
(d) Payments to health maintenance organizations and prepaid health plans with which the department executes risk contracts for the provision of medical care to eligible public assistance recipients may be made on a prepaid basis. The rate of payment per participating recipient shall be fixed by contract, as determined by the department and the health maintenance organization or the prepaid health plan, but shall not exceed the maximum permitted by federal rules and shall be less than the federal maximum when funds appropriated by the legislature for such contracts require a lesser rate.
For purposes of this subsection, "health maintenance organizations" are entities approved as such, and "prepaid health plans" are entities designated as such by the Department of Health and Human Services; and "risk" means the possibility that the health maintenance organization or the prepaid health plan may incur a loss because the cost of providing services may exceed the payments made by the department for services covered under the contract.
(e) The department shall prepare each biennial
budget request for a medical care appropriation based upon the most current
Hawaii medicaid fee schedule available at the time the request is prepared. The legislature shall consider the rates
determined pursuant to subsection (c).
The
director shall submit a report to the legislature on or before January 1 of
each year indicating an estimate of the amount of money required to be
appropriated to pay providers [at the maximum rates permitted by federal and
state rules in the upcoming fiscal year.] according to the rates
determined pursuant to subsection (c)."
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2023-2024 to fund any costs that may arise while the department of human services establishes payment rates pursuant to section 346-59(c), Hawaii Revised Statutes.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that section 2 shall take effect on July 1, 2023.
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INTRODUCED BY: |
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Report Title:
Medical Care Payments; Provider Reimbursements; Calculations; Adjustment of Method; Appropriation
Description:
Adjusts the method by which the department of human services shall calculate payments to providers of medical care and long-term supports and services. Appropriates funds.
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