Senate Bill No. 366
(By Senators Whitlow, Blatnik, Helmick, Manchin, Sharpe and
Ross)
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[Introduced February 15, 1995; referred to the Committee
on Finance.]
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A BILL finding and declaring certain claims against the state and
its agencies to be moral obligations of the state and
directing the auditor to issue warrants for the payment
thereof.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
CLAIMS AGAINST THE STATE.
§1.Finding and declaring certain claims against the board of
probation and parole; department of education; division of
corrections; division of culture and history; division of
human services; division of labor; geological and economical
survey; regional jail and correctional facility authority;
and women's commission to be moral obligations of the state
and directing payments thereof.
The Legislature has heretofore made findings of fact that
the state has received the benefit of the commodities received
and/or services rendered by certain claimants herein and has considered these claims against the state, and agencies thereof,
which have arisen due to over expenditures of the departmental
appropriations by officers of such state spending units, such
claims having been previously considered by the court of claims
which also found that the state has received the benefit of the
commodities received and/or services rendered by the claimants,
but were denied by the court of claims on the purely statutory
grounds that to allow such claims would be condoning illegal acts
contrary to the laws of the state. The Legislature pursuant to
its findings of fact and also by the adoption of the findings of
fact by the court of claims as its own, and, while not condoning
such illegal acts, hereby declares it to be the moral obligation
of the state to pay these claims in the amounts specified below,
and directs the auditor to issue warrants upon receipt of
properly executed requisitions supported by itemized invoices,
statements or other satisfactory documents as required by section
ten, article three, chapter twelve of the code of West Virginia,
one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, for the
payments thereof out of any fund appropriated and available for
the purpose.
(a)
Claim against the Board of Probation and Parole:
To be paid from General Revenue Fund)
(1) Bell Atlantic-West Virginia, Inc. ...........$898.78
(b)
Claim against the Department of Education:
(To be paid from General Revenue Fund)
(1) Bell Atlantic-West Virginia, Inc. ............ $14,292.08
(c)
Claims against the Division of Corrections:
(To be paid from General Revenue Fund)
(1) ARA Health Services, Inc., dba Correctional
Medical Systems .......................$ 18,197.32
(2) American Office Systems .............. $ 197.00
(3) Associated Anesthesiologists, Inc..... $645.00
(4) BMA of West Virginia, Inc.
dba BMA of Morgantown ................$64,354.19
(5) Ashraf Badour, M.D. ....................$ 100.00
(6) Raymond A. Bannan, M.D. ................$55.00
(7) E.Y. Baysal, M.D........................$430.00
(8) Beckley Appalachian Regional Healthcare.$ 1,899.00
(9) Bell Atlantic-West Virginia, Inc. ......$21,503.54
(10) Michael W. Blatt, M.D. ................$820.00
(11) Bluefield Pathology Associates, Inc. ..$250.00
(12) Bluefield Regional Medical Center .....$99.08
(13) John W. Byers, D.D.S. .................$214.00
(14) Hubert H. Byron, Jr., D.D.S. ..........$1,711.00
(15) Cabell Huntington Hospital ............$10,001.39
(16) Camden Clark Memorial Hospital ........$215.73
(17) Cardiocare ............................$216.00
(18) Anthony Catania, Jr., DPM .............$245.00
(19) Charleston Area Medical Center ........$1,434.79
(20) City of Grafton .......................$9,636.00
(21) City of Moundsville ...................$5,666.50
(22) Joseph R. Clawson, D.D.S. .............$885.00
(23) Community Health Systems, Inc. ........$933.96
(24) Correctional Medical Services, Inc. ...$66,756.88
(25) Nancy L. Craig, M.D. ..................$100.00
(26) Davis Memorial Hospital ...............$384.25
(27) John P. Donahue, M.D. .................$138.00
(28) Fairmont General Hospital .............$682.41
(29) Shafqat P. Farooqi, M.D., FACC ........$5,525.00
(30) Galen Health Care of WV, Inc. .........$42,550.12
(31) Gas Access Systems, Inc. ..............$18,754.58
(32) General Welding Supply Company ........$58.04
(33) Richard S. Glass, M.D. ................$2,262.00
(34) Harry Glen, M.D. ......................$98.20
(35) Manuel A. Gomez, M.D. .................$1,157.75
(36) Goodwin Drug Company ..................$3,275.86
(37) Greenbrier Anesthesia Services, Inc. ..$3,666.00
(38) Greenbrier Dermatology Associates .....$336.00
(39) Greenbrier Physicians, Inc. ...........$14,325.00
(40) Greenbrier Valley Med. Ctr.
dba Metro Rad. ......................$1,017.00
(41) Greenbrier Valley Urology Assoc., Inc. $7,066.00
(42) Wilmer G. Heceta, M.D. ................$737.00
(43) I.H. Luna, M.D., Inc. .................$980.00
(44) James Archibald Jacob, M.D. ...........$28.00
(45) Attila A. Lenkey, Jr., M.D. ...........$1,520.00
(46) Phillip B. Mathias, M.D. ..............$585.00
(47) Carl F. McComas, M.D. .................$240.00
(48) Medical Center Pharmacy and
Health Service ......................$7,119.22
(49) Medical Park Anesthesiologists ........$266.00
(50) Medical Services, Inc. ................$1,700.50
(51) Sushil K. Mehrotra, M.D. ..............$4,333.00
(52) Rajesh M. Menta, M.D. .................$650.00
(53) Susan W. Miller, M.D. .................$85.00
(54) Monongalia General Hospital ...........$232.50
(55) Paul E. Nefflen, M.D. .................$1,084.00
(56) Northwood Health Systems, Inc. ........$275.00
(57) Joe O. Othman, M.D., A.C.P. ...........$785.00
(58) Panos Ignatiadis, M.D., Inc. ..........$181.00
(59) Fred J. Payne, M.D. ...................$410.00
(60) Plastic Surgery, Inc. .................$129.00
(61) Prime Care 12 .........................$808.00
(62) Princeton Community Hospital ..........$1,394.37
(63) Princeton Emergency Physicians
Billing Service .....................$315.00
(64) Professional Imaging, Inc. ............$848.48
(65) Putnam County Commission ..............$7,516.91
(66) Putnam General ........................$372.80
(67) Radiology, Inc. .......................$1,160.00
(68) Reynolds Memorial Hospital ............$203,690.79
(69) Roanoke Podiatry & Foot Surgery, PC ...$1,705.50
(70) Roche Biomedical Laboratories, Inc. ...$334.25
(71) Alan M. Ruben, M.D. ...................$724.00
(72) William L. Sapon, D.D.S. ..............$1,650.00
(73) Doyle R. Sickles, M.D. ................$122.00
(74) Sistersville General Hospital .........$342.93
(75) Lee E. Smith, M.D.,
& Robert M. Jones, M.D., P.C. .......$160.00
(76) Martin T. Smith, D.O. .................$65.00
(77) St. Mary's Hospital ...................$5,334.00
(78) Michael A. Stewart, M.D. ..............$7,260.00
(79) Surgical Specialists of
Greenbrier Valley ...................$2,235.00
(80) T. Keith Edwards, M.D., Inc. ..........$600.00
(81) Romeo B. Tan, M.D. ....................$6,810.00
(82) Taylor County Emergency Squad, Inc. ...$395.00
(83) The Heart Institute of Southern WV ....$1,240.00
(84) Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Inc.$6,335.00
(85) Tri-State Ambulance, Inc. .............$4,070.60
(86) Tri-State Derm. Lab., John P.
Donahue, M.D. .......................$440.00
(87) Unisource (Copco Papers) ..............$377.20
(88) United Hospital Center ................$10,255.45
(89) University Health Associates
Dental Practice .....................$2,144.00
(90) University Health Associates, Inc. ....$103,951.00
(91) Valley Comp. Comm. Mental
Health Center, Inc. .................$1,091.00
(92) Welch Emergency Hospital ..............$11,207.42
(93) West Virginia University
Hospitals, Inc. .....................$321,095.98
(94) Wheeling Clinic, Inc. .................$1,476.00
(95) Wheeling Hospital .....................$9,675.35
(96) Nazih R. Youssef, M.D. ................$6,947.29
(d)
Claim against the Division of Culture and History:
(To be paid from General Revenue Fund)
(1) Bell Atlantic-West Virginia, Inc. ..............$2,527.44
(e)
Claims against the Division of Human Services:
(To be paid from General Revenue Fund)
(1) Bartlett Burdette Cox Funeral Home .............$400.00
(2) Roane County Commission ........................$300.00
(f)
Claim against the Division of Labor:
(To be paid from General Revenue Fund)
(1) Dodson Bros. Exterminating
Company, Inc. ...............................$240.00
(g)
Claim against the Geological and Economical Survey:
(To be paid from General Revenue Fund)
(1) Bell Atlantic-West Virginia, Inc. .............$2,596.01
(h)
Claim against the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority:
(To be paid from General Revenue Fund)
(1) Correctional Medical Services, Inc. ...........$ 25,753.63
(i)
Claim against the Women's Commission:
(To be paid from General Revenue Fund)
(1) Bell Atlantic-West Virginia, Inc. .............$ 376.34
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide payment to
certain claimants who provided commodities and/or services to the
state, but who were not paid because the agencies involved
overspent their budgets. Total amount of general revenue -
$1,100,737.41)