HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1203

TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2011

H.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

 

RELATING TO PHYSICIAN WORKFORCE ASSESSMENT.

 

 

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

 


     SECTION 1.  Section 453-8.8, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

     "[[]§453-8.8[]]  Physician workforce assessment fee; license; physician workforce information.  When a license is renewed, each physician or surgeon and each osteopathic physician or surgeon shall be assessed a fee of $60 that shall be transferred and deposited into the John A. Burns school of medicine special fund established under section 304A-2171 to support ongoing assessment and planning of the physician workforce in Hawaii[.]; provided that any excess funds from the fund shall be used for: 

     (1)  Assessing reimbursement reform;

     (2)  Expediting reimbursements to physicians;

     (3)  Educating physicians on the impact of federal health care reform; and

     (4)  Advancing the medical home model. 

Payment of the physician workforce assessment fee shall be required for license renewal."

     SECTION 2.  Act 18, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2009, is amended by amending section 9 to read as follows:

     "SECTION 9.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2009[; provided that sections 3 and 4 shall be repealed on June 30, 2012]."

     SECTION 3.  Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken.  New statutory material is underscored.

     SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.



 

Report Title:

Physicians; Assessment Fee

 

Description:

Makes the physician workforce assessment fee permanent.  Specifies what excess funds from the workforce assessment fee shall be used for.  (HB1203 HD1)

 

 

 

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