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This Concurrent Resolution requests the Legislative Reference Bureau, a state agency that provides research and bill drafting services to the legislature, to conduct a financial analysis of the managed care organizations that manage the Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund. This analysis will involve auditing the money spent on actual healthcare services versus the money spent on administrative tasks. The resolution also asks the Bureau to examine how payment reforms and capitation (a fixed payment per patient) affect the administrative costs and burdens on primary care physicians, potentially contributing to a physician shortage, and to analyze "medical management" costs. The Bureau is to submit its findings and any legislative recommendations to the Hawaii Legislature by a specific date before the 2023 session.