Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
State Health Insurance Program
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1989.06.26-1994.06.30
History
The State Health Insurance Program (SHIP) was established by Act 378, Session Laws of Hawaiʻi 1989.
SHIP was a distinct entity with its own administrator and administrative rules in the Health Resources Administration of the Department of Health. Interestingly, the only reference, outside its own records, to its place in the organization is the 1993 “Guide to Government” published by the Legislative Reference Bureau. No record of a formal reorganization has been located.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
The primary purpose of SHIP was to provide basic health insurance to Hawaii residents who were uninsured, i.e., “gap group individuals.” Its specific goals were to:
• Subsidize health care coverage for gap group individuals, including outpatient primary and preventive care;
• Encourage uninsured individuals who could afford existing health plans to seek coverage thereunder;
• Discourage individuals who were already adequately insured from seeking benefits under SHIP;
• Assure that those persons who had the ability to pay for all or part of their coverage were appropriately assessed; and
• Ensure that SHIP was affordable to gap group individuals.
Mandates/sources of authority
Hawaii Revised Statutes: Chapter 431N (1993).
Session Laws of Hawaii: Act 378, SLH 1989; Act 335, SLH 1991; Acts 6 and 289, SLH 1993; Act 190, SLH 1997.
Hawaii Administrative Rules: Title 11 (Department of Health), Chapter 6 (SHIP), 1992.