STAND. COM. REP. NO. 548

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1106

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1106, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to reflect program changes within the Department of Human Services by substituting specific references in the Hawaii Revised Statutes to "QUEST" and "QUEST Expanded Access" with "medicaid managed care" or "medicaid managed care program", as appropriate.

     Your Committee finds that on January 1, 2015, the QUEST and QUEST Expanded Access programs were combined and replaced by the QUEST Integration program which is provided through a managed care delivery system.  Your Committee finds that it is necessary to replace all references to QUEST and QUEST Expanded Access in the Hawaii Revised Statutes to accurately reflect the change to the State's medicaid program.

     Your Committee further finds that a conforming amendment should be made to section 103F-402, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by inserting an amendment to section 103F-402, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to change the reference to "QUEST" in that statute to "medicaid managed care".

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1106, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1106, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair