1998-02-23                     Senate Journal                      Page 2614
SB 197                                                                       
Senator Donley offered Amendment No. 1 :                                        
                                                                               
Page 2, following line 5:                                                      
	Insert a new bill section to read:                                            
                                                                               
	"* Sec. 2.  AS 21.86.060(a) is amended to read:                             
	(a)  A health maintenance organization may provide                            
provider ªPHYSICIANß services directly, through provider               
[PHYSICIANß employees, or may provide the services under                       
arrangements with individual providers ªPHYSICIANSß or one or              
more groups of providers ªPHYSICIANSß."                                    
                                                                               
Renumber the following bill sections accordingly.                              
                                                                               
Senator Donley moved and asked unanimous consent for the                       
adoption of Amendment No. 1. Without objection, Amendment No.                  
1 was adopted.                                                                 
                                                                               
Senator Halford offered Amendment No. 2 :                                       
                                                                               
Page 2, line 1, following subsection,                                         
		Insert: (1);                                                             
                                                                               
	Page 2, line 5, following midwife,                                            
		Insert: ;                                                                  
	(2) unfair discrimination does not include requirements                       
imposed by an insurer for purposes of utilization review, cost                 
containment, or standards of clinically appropriate health care                
services.                                                                    
                                                                               
Senator Halford moved for the adoption of Amendment No. 2.                     
Senator Donley objected.                                                       
                                                                               
The question being: Shall Amendment No. 2 be adopted? The roll                 
was taken with the following result: