HI SCR102

Requests the Legislative Reference Bureau to study Alaska legislation permitting physicians to collectively negotiate contracts with health benefit plans under the Parker Immunity Doctrine exemption to federal antitrust law.

Identifies Hawaii's highly concentrated health insurance market (one insurer controlling 67% of market share, ranked third least competitive nationally) as a barrier to physician recruitment and retention due to monopsonistic insurer power.

Notes Hawaii has an estimated shortage of 820 physicians with a 65% increase in the physician supply-demand gap since 2010, with neighbor islands facing critical shortages (16% on Oahu to 44% on Hawaii island).

Directs the study to examine the Parker Immunity Doctrine's legal status, implementation in other states, and whether similar legislation would affect Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act exemption from federal ERISA requirements.

Requires submission of findings, conclusions, and recommended legislation to the Legislature no later than twenty days before the 2021 Regular Session convening.