Bill Text: HI SCR210 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Committee on the creation of a Hawaii all-payer health claims database.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-04-12 - (H) Referred to HLT/CPC, FIN, referral sheet 67 [SCR210 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SCR210-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2868

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 210

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 210 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE CREATION OF A HAWAII ALL-PAYER HEALTH CLAIMS DATABASE FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRANSPARENT PUBLIC REPORTING OF HEALTH CARE INFORMATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to convene an advisory committee to make recommendations regarding the creation and maintenance of an all-payer claims database in Hawaii to publicly report health care and health quality data, including information on safety, quality, cost, and efficiency at all levels of health care.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Medical Service Association, Kaiser Permanente, the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and the Hawaii Association of Health Plans.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that a uniform claims reporting system will add transparency and accountability to what is often an incomprehensible system to laypeople.  However, your Committee realizes that establishing a statewide claims reporting system is a complex task. Your Committee feels that a task force to study the multifarious issues relating to it is a prudent first step and will help to make the program pertinent, accessible, and cost efficient. 

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive changes to ensure clarity and accuracy in the language of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 210, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 210, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair