THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2013

 

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

Senator David Y. Ige, Chair

Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Vice Chair

 

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013

 

DATE:

Friday, April 5, 2013

TIME:

10:30am

PLACE:

Conference Room 211

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

 

HB 152, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR965)

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION MEDICAL FEE SCHEDULES.

Increases maximum allowable medical fees under workers' compensation to 130 percent of the Medicare Resource Based Relative Value Scale.  (SD1)

 

JDL, WAM

HB 152, HD1, SD1

      (SSCR965)

      Proposed SD2

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION MEDICAL FEE SCHEDULES.

Requires the auditor to conduct a study on various aspects of the workers' compensation medical fee schedules and system in the State, including the sufficiency of current rates to provide access to the State's physicians that are willing to serve workers' compensation patients and fiscal impacts of increasing fee schedules. (Proposed SD2)

 

JDL, WAM

 

Copies of the proposed SD2 are available from the Senate Document Center and on the Legislature's website: www.capitol.hawaii.gov

 

 

 

No testimony will be accepted.

 

FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-6230.