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Senate HHS advances pharmacist reimbursement, medication-abortion stockpile and preceptor credit expansions
Summary
The Senate Health and Human Services calendar moved multiple health workforce and access bills, including legislation on pharmacist reimbursement (SB 1245), a medication-abortion stockpile (SB 1246), and expansion of preceptor tax credits (SB 1070); committees passed most measures with technical or sponsor-proposed amendments.
The Senate’s Health and Human Services calendar advanced a set of bills addressing health workforce compensation, medication-abortion access and preceptor incentives.
Lawmakers voted to pass SB 1245, a bill on pharmacist reimbursement and practice within scope, with committee amendments informed by a prior Sunrise analysis and by agreements with Kaiser Permanente and other stakeholders. Corey Sanders of the Hawaii Pharmacists Association thanked the committee for collaborative work on payment framework language and noted ongoing discussions with DOH about federally qualified health centers. Testimony emphasized rural and neighbor-island access concerns; Molokai Drugs’…
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