STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1168-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2092

      S.D. 2

      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. 2092, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure that qualified patients waitlisted for long-term care are granted presumptive medicaid eligibility so they may receive appropriate medical care.  Specifically, this measure:

 

     (1)  Requires the Department of Human Services to provide medicaid presumptive eligibility to patients who have been waitlisted for long-term care provided that the patients meet certain financial and medical criteria consistent with medicaid requirements;

 

     (2)  Allows the Department of Human Services, if the waitlisted patient is later determined to be ineligible for medicaid after receiving services during the period of presumptive eligibility, to disenroll the patient and reimburse the provider or the plan for services provided during the time that the waitlisted patient was enrolled; and

 


     (3)  Appropriates funds for reimbursements for services provided during the period of presumptive eligibility if a patient is later disenrolled due to a determination of ineligibility.

 

     The Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii, The Queen's Health Systems, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and a concerned individual supported the measure.  The Department of Human Services opposed the measure.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 2, 2050, to promote further discussion.  Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made 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. 2092, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2092, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

 

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair