Bill Text: HI SB2712 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Medicaid; Reimbursements

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-24 - (S) The conference committee deferred the measure. [SB2712 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2712-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1072-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2712

      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 S.B. No. 2712 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify the term "medical institution" by providing a definition therefor in Chapter 346, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the Department of Human Services.

 

     The Department of Human Services and Department of the Attorney General supported the measure.  The Alliance of Residential Care Administrators and Hokulani Senior Living, LLC supported the measure with amendments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Providing for:

 

          (A)  The development of a fair and equitable reimbursement system for all clients under the Medicaid Program for community based caregiver services; and

 

          (B)  The development of a fair and equitable referral system for clients transferring from hospitals to community based care homes;

     (2)  Adding a new part that mandates a non-emergency transportation services study;

 

     (3)  Prohibiting Hawaii Medicaid, QUEST, and their contractors from modifying reimbursement policies and guidelines without prior notice and further prohibiting retroactive changes of previously approved Medicaid reimbursements;

 

     (4)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to promote further discussion; and

 

     (5)  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 are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2712, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2712, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

 

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