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HI SB 2690

died on adjournment

RELATING TO PRIMARY CARE.

Hawaii · 2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Requires all health carriers to allocate, initially, not less than 6% of the carrier's total medical expenditures to primary care providers, with the percentage increasingly incrementally to 12%. Requires health carriers to pay primary care providers directly, rather than through administrative mechanisms. Places restrictions on downcoding and claim modifications. Requires health carriers to ensure access to primary care in rural areas, including access to Primary Care Access Visits and Community Access Primary Care Sites. Requires Insurance Commissioner to administer requirements established in bill. Requires the Department of Human Services Med-QUEST Division to apply the Act, to the extent permitted by federal law and subject to any federal approvals, to Medicaid managed care organizations. Requires reports. Requires the Auditor to evaluate the impact of the Act on various metrics 3 years after the measure's effective date. Establishes the primary care stabilization special fund.

Introduced
2026-01-23
Status date
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Latest action
2026-02-18 — The committee on HHS deferred the measure.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • INOUYEprimary
  • HASHIMOTOprimary
  • LAMOSAOprimary
  • Changcosponsor
  • Fukunagacosponsor
  • Gabbardcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-02-18

    The committee on CPN deferred the measure.

    deferral

  2. 2026-02-18

    The committee on HHS deferred the measure.

    deferral

  3. 2026-02-17

    The committee(s) on HHS/CPN deferred the measure until 02-18-26 10:06AM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

    deferral

  4. 2026-02-13

    The committee(s) on HHS/CPN has scheduled a public hearing on 02-17-26 9:45AM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

  5. 2026-01-28

    Referred to HHS/CPN, WAM.

    referral-committee

  6. 2026-01-26

    Passed First Reading.

    reading-1

  7. 2026-01-23

    Introduced.

    introduction

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Documents

Votes

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Related bills

Official source

https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=2690&year=2026

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