STAND. COM. REP. NO.  364

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

RE:   H.B. No. 360

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 360 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAID,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the Medicaid reimbursement rate by basing the fee schedule on the 2006 Medicare Fee Schedule and appropriating funds for the increase.

     The Healthcare Association of Hawaii and Hawaii Medical Association testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services & Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 360, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 360, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ JOSHUA B. GREEN, M.D., Chair

____________________________ MAILE SHIMABUKURO, Chair