Bill Text: HI HCR158 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Human Services; Demonstration Project; Healthcare Integration; Medicaid and Medicare

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-03 - (H) Report adopted. referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cabanilla, Carroll, Mizuno, Thielen excused (4). [HCR158 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HCR158-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1463-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.C.R. No. 158

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 158 entitled:

 

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES TO IMPLEMENT A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT TO INTEGRATE HEALTHCARE FOR INDIVIDUALS ENROLLED IN BOTH MEDICAID AND MEDICARE,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to request that the Department of Human Services implement a demonstration project to integrate care for individuals enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare in order to improve patient-centeredness and quality of care, help reduce providers' administrative burden, and generate savings to the state and federal governments.

 

     The Department of Human Services, United Self Help, and a concerned individual supported the measure.  AlohaCare supported the intent of the measure with amendments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

    

     (1)  Requesting the Department of Human Services to mitigate the impact of the demonstration project on competing Centers-approved dual eligible special needs plans that are not QUEST Expanded Access Medicaid managed care health plans by ensuring that traditional Medicare only members will be enrolled in the integration demonstration;

 

     (2)  Adding language directing the Director of Human Services to report to the 2013 Legislature on a plan for the integration demonstration, which includes the Memorandum of Agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, enrollment targets and related outreach initiatives, expected savings, and monitoring and oversight infrastructure; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 158, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 158, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair