STAND. COM. REP. NO.  501

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 583

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 583 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is require the Department of Human Services to apply an annual cost increase to a long-term care facility's provider-specific prospective payment rate to Medicaid recipients by applying an inflation factor to the provider's historical costs or basic prospective payment system rates.

The Queen's Health Systems, Ann Pearl Nursing Facility and Adult Health Center, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, One Kalakaua Senior Living, Hale Makua Health Services, Healthcare Association of Hawaii, Ohana Pacific Management Company, and a concerned individual supported this measure. The Department of Human Services commented on this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     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 H.B. No. 583, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 583, 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,

____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair

____________________________ DEE MORIKAWA, Chair