Bill Text: HI SB1094 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Federally Qualified Health Centers; Patient-centered Health Care

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB1094 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB1094-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 291

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1094

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1094 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to reduce health care costs by directing the Department of Health to develop and implement a patient-centered health care homes pilot project to provide primary health care funding to federally qualified health centers.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Primary Care Association and the Waikiki Health Center.  Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Health.

 

     Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that federally qualified health centers have consistently struggled financially due to low reimbursement rates for services provided.  This measure proposes to study a patient-centered health care homes model for providing comprehensive health care that will be a substantial costs-savings to the health care system by early and accurate identification of health problems resulting in significantly less use of emergency room services, specialist referrals, duplicative testing, and fewer hospitalizations for ambulatory-sensitive conditions.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to require the funding for the program to derive solely from the federal stimulus plan known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1094, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1094, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair