STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2089

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2067

       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 Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2067 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Human Services to provide Medicaid presumptive eligibility to patients who have been waitlisted for long-term care, as well as conduct a study of a computerized Medicaid application system to alleviate the length of time it takes to process Medicaid applications.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Pacific Health, Kaiser Permanente, The Queen's Medical Center, The Arc of Kona, and the Hawaii Disability Rights Center.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Upon further consideration, your Committee finds that in the interests of efficiency, it is more appropriate to have the Department of Human Services submit a one-page executive summary on the results of the application of Medicaid presumptive eligibility.

 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Human Services to submit a one-page executive summary, rather than a report, to the Legislature regarding the impact of Medicaid presumptive eligibility on the waitlist of patients awaiting transfer to a long-term care facility, and other issues related to Medicaid presumptive eligibility; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive stylistic changes.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2067, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2067, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair