STAND. COM. REP. NO.  175

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 937

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 937 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE MEDICAID MANAGED CARE PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to replace outdated references to two separate Medicaid managed care delivery systems, QUEST and QUEST Expanded Access, now combined as one system, with the more accurate terms "medicaid managed care" and "medicaid managed care program."  

 

     The Department of Human Services testified in support of this measure.  Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and one concerned individual submitted testimony in opposition to this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Removing unnecessary amendments to an obsolete statutory section relating to the provision of a supplemental capitation program by the Department of Human Services; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     Your Committee has deleted from this measure language that would have amended section 346-41.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to Hawaii Qualified Health Centers.  However, noting that this section is in fact obsolete, your Committee respectfully requests the Committee on Finance to consider repealing section 346-41.5, Hawaii Revised Statutes, should it choose to deliberate this measure.

 

     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 H.B. No. 937, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 937, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair