The House Committee on Health and Human Resources met this evening.
House Bill 5582 would extend the program for drug screening of applicants for TANF to December 2030. This bill was reported to the floor.
House Bill 4359 would exempt existing West Virginia hospitals from needing a new certificate of need to move their facility up to 10 miles to a new location. After concerns in the hearing phase about possible statewide complications, this bill was tabled.
House Bill 5625 would change the requirements for the license of radon mitigators, testers, contractors, and laboratories. Under this bill, no building contractor may build an radon resistant new construction home without using a licensed radon mitigation specialist or radon mitigation contractor. This bill was advanced to markup and discussion.
House Bill 5476 would require a health care provider that maintains electronic health care records to preserve and maintain each entry in its original form and record an audit trail of any additions, deletions, or revisions to the health care record. This bill would also allow patients to, if they find any information in their chart, request that corrections be made. This bill was advanced to markup and discussion.
House Bill 5569 would reinstate the discount on Public Employees Insurance for retired firefighters hired after 2010. This bill was moved to markup and discussion.
Senate Bill 231 would require the Bureau for Medical Services to establish standard billing codes for all substance-abuse disorders. This would analyze these billing codes to determine trends, costs, and outcomes for substance-abuse disorders.
This bill would also establish value-based treatment programs for substance-abuse disorders. These programs would reward providers for quality and cost-effective care that leads to sobriety for substance-abuse and reduce payments to providers who fail to meet the expectations in the bill. The intent of this is to pay for patient health outcomes rather than the service fees. This bill was advanced to markup and discussion.
House Bill 5260 would allow regulated medical cannabis processors to manufacture medical cannabis as edibles for patients, and requires dispensaries, after dispensing medical cannabis, to report the information into the controlled substance monitoring database. This bill was advanced to markup and discussion.
