Report Title:

Dentists; Medicaid Reimbursement

 

Description:

Increases reimbursement to dentists to up to 75% of usual, customary, and reasonable fees for Medicaid patients, and appropriates $ to DHS. Requires DHS to standardize forms and report to governor and legislature by 9/1/2001.

 

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1338

TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2001

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to dentists.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. (a) Beginning on July 1, 2001, the department of human services shall reimburse each dentist licensed under chapter 448, Hawaii Revised Statutes, up to seventy-five per cent of the usual, customary, and reasonable fees charged for dental services provided to medicaid patients.

(b) In order to reduce paperwork and increase efficiency, the department of human services shall examine the possibility and practicality of standardizing all state reimbursement claim forms for medicaid patients to conform to the forms used by the American Dental Association. The department shall report to the governor and to the legislature no later than September 1, 2001, regarding its actions on standardizing claim forms required by this subsection.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2001-2002, and the same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003, to fund the reimbursement increase for dental services provided to medicaid patients required under section 1(a).

The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of human services.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval, except that section 2 shall take effect on July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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