Bill Text: HI SB2084 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Mammogram Insurance Coverage; Referrals

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-04-30 - (S) Act 092, 4/30/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1193). [SB2084 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2084-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1550-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2084

      S.D. 1

      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 Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2084, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH INSURANCE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to prohibit an insurer from requiring a doctor's referral for annual covered screening mammograms for insured persons over the age of 40.

 

     Kaiser Permanente, the American Cancer Society, Hawaii Medical Service Association, and Hawaii Association of Health Plans supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2084, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2084, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair