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• Introduced by Rep. Todd A. Eachus (D) on March 21, 2009, to add benefits to the adultBasic state government health insurance program, including prescription drugs, chronic disease management, preventive and wellness care, and behavioral health care.
  • Referred to the House Insurance Committee on March 21, 2009.
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Scott W. Boyd (R) on June 10, 2009. The amendment failed in the House (94 to 100) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. T. Mark Mustio (R) on June 10, 2009, to establish a sliding-scale premium for the PA adultBasic health insurance program, based on income; the bill also requires the verififcation of eligibility every six months, and rolling enrollment procedures . The amendment failed in the House (95 to 99) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Douglas G. Reichley (R) on June 10, 2009, to require that the rate of premium for adultBasic increase by annually by the rate of inflation for the previous 12 months; the amendment also requires that the premium for an enrollee whose household income is equal to or less than 150% of the Federal poverty level be $35 a month . The amendment failed in the House (95 to 99) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Douglas G. Reichley (R) on June 10, 2009, to require the Commonwealth, when scoring bids from insurers to underwrite the adultBasic program, to consider criteria only on the basis of the requirements of adultBasic; the amendment also prohibits the Commonwealth from providing any outside the scope of any contract entered into with any contractor to provide the benefit package under adultBasic . The amendment failed in the House (94 to 100) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Scott W. Boyd (R) on June 10, 2009, to repeal the section of the bill requiring every hospital plan corporation and professional health service plan corporation operating in this Commonwealth to pay the tax on gross premiums . The amendment failed in the House (97 to 97) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Katharine M. Watson (R) on June 10, 2009, to appropriate: (1) $25,000,000 annually appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Health for Community-Based Health Care Centers; and (2) the sum of $2,000,000 to the Department of Health for the Mobile Prenatal and Natal Care Demonstration Project . The amendment failed in the House (97 to 97) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Douglas G. Reichley (R) on June 10, 2009, to provide a $500 per employee tax credit for businesses who purchase and provide a disease management program . The amendment failed in the House (95 to 99) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Curt Schroder (R) on June 10, 2009, to establish a "rolling basis" defined as: within 30 days of a determination that an individual receiving a subsidized benefit package is no longer an eligible adult, the enrollment of an eligible adult from the waiting list in the program for a subsidized benefit package . The amendment failed in the House (94 to 100) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Curt Schroder (R) on June 10, 2009, to establish that the Department of Insurance shall not negotiate a contract with an underwriting insurer for a period in excess of two years, and that no emergency extension of a contract shall be permitted or required for any reason . The amendment failed in the House (93 to 101) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Scott A. Petri (R) on June 10, 2009, to repeal the section of the bill autorizing the PA Department of Insurance to change adultBasic benefits, the premium amounts, and eligibility requirements in order for the program to meet Federal requirements. The amendment also establishes that if the Federal Government enacts programs similar to the adultBasic program as modified by the bill, the legislation shall expire upon implementation of the Federal programs . The amendment failed in the House (95 to 99) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Scott A. Petri (R) on June 10, 2009, to establish that existing contracts under the Adult Basic Program or the Physical Health Choices Program of the Department of Public must be renegotiated to provide benefits . The amendment failed in the House (96 to 98) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Bryan Cutler (R) on June 10, 2009, to establish that an eligible adult seeking to purchase coverage under the program shall submit an application to the department or a contractor and provide a photo identification . The amendment failed in the House (94 to 100) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Douglas G. Reichley (R) on June 10, 2009, to establish that if adultBasic is expanded to provide prescription coverage, the Commonwealth must consider pharmaceutical services a covered benefit that must be provided under contracts with program contractors . The amendment failed in the House (96 to 97) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Motion by Rep. Nicholas A. Micozzie (R) on June 10, 2009. The motion failed in the House (95 to 99) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Daryl D. Metcalfe (R) on June 10, 2009, to insert "permanent legal alien status" as an option to "legal residence within the U.S." for meeting adultBasic eligiblity guidelines with regard to residency . The amendment passed in the House (127 to 65) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Thomas H. Killion (R) on June 10, 2009, to require health insurers to make available to individuals and small groups a BasicCare policy that is free of state mandates for benefit coverage . The amendment failed in the House (93 to 99) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Keith Gillespie (R) on June 10, 2009, to establish that an admission made by a health care provider to a patient, or their representative, regarding the patient’s discomfort, pain, suffering, injury or death resulting from a medical treatment shall be inadmissible as evidence of liability if made before commencement of any legal action.
    • Motion by Rep. Todd A. Eachus (D) on June 10, 2009. The motion failed in the House (87 to 104) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Scott A. Petri (R) on June 10, 2009, to make technical changes to the legislation . The amendment passed in the House (192 to 0) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Scott A. Petri (R) on June 10, 2009, to make editorial changes to the legislation . The amendment passed in the House (192 to 0) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Matthew E. Baker (R) on June 10, 2009, to establish the Information Incentive Payment Program to provide financial assistance to certain acute care hospitals and critical access hospitals for the implementation of electronic health record systems. The Dept of Public Welfare would be required to establish a payment incentive program consistent with the provisions of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide assistance to eligible hospitals for the implementation of electronic health record systems . The amendment passed in the House (192 to 0) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Glen R. Grell (R) on June 10, 2009, to make editorial changes. The amendment passed in the House (191 to 1) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Glen R. Grell (R) on June 10, 2009, to make technical changes to the bill. The amendment passed in the House (191 to 1) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Bryan Cutler (R) on June 10, 2009, to require the Commonwealth to adjust the copayment amounts for adultBasic to reflect changes in the cost of medical services and to forward notice of the new premium amounts to the Legislative Reference Bureau for publication as a notice in the Pennsylvania Bulletin . The amendment passed in the House (191 to 1) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Bryan Cutler (R) on June 10, 2009, to prohibit the Commonwealth from requiring a contractor to negotiate a contract with a health care provider that conditions reimbursements paid to a health care provider at a rate that is at or below the reimbursement rate paid to a health care provider under medical assistance . The amendment passed in the House (192 to 0) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Stan Saylor (R) on June 10, 2009, to establish the Dentists for Medical Assistance Patients Program to provide an annual supplemental salary of $80,000 to recently graduated dentists within three years from the date of graduation who dedicate 50% of their practice to caring for patients on medical assistance. Dentists within six years from the date of graduation would receive an annual supplemental salary of $30,000 if they dedicate 20% of their practice to serving patients on medical assistance . The amendment passed in the House (192 to 0) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Gordon Denlinger (R) on June 10, 2009, to add a criteria for eligibility for adultBasic, as follows: an individual cannot qualify for health insurance as a child of an insured parent . The amendment passed in the House (192 to 0) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Josh Shapiro (D) on June 10, 2009, to create the Physician Retention Loan Forgiveness Program and reimburse physicians licensed in the Commonwealth who practice internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, or obstetrics and gynecology for up to 100 percent of their medical school loans; eligible physicians would have to practice in a medically underserved or primary care health professional shortage area and agree to practice in Pennsylvania for a minimum of 10 years . The amendment passed in the House (187 to 5) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Mark B. Cohen (D) on June 10, 2009, to require health insurance policies to provide coverage for telehealth, which the amendment defines as the remote interaction between a health care professional and a patient through the use of any of the following: video camera transmission; computer video transmission; an electronic health monitoring device; another telecommunications device that delivers health information concerning a patient to a health care professional . The amendment passed in the House (111 to 81) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Amendment offered by Rep. Russell H. Fairchild (R) on June 10, 2009.
    • Motion in the House on June 10, 2009. The motion passed in the House (107 to 85) on June 10, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Motion by Rep. Russell H. Fairchild (R) on June 29, 2009. The motion failed in the House (98 to 102) on June 29, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
  • Motion by Rep. Karen D. Beyer (R) on June 29, 2009. The motion failed in the House (97 to 103) on June 29, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]
• Passed in the House (104 to 96) on June 29, 2009. [Vote Details and Comments]