Sec. 1. Specialty workforce in rural communities
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Title VII of the Public Health Service Act ( 42 U.S.C. 292 et seq.) is amended— by redesignating part G ( 42 U.S.C. 795j et seq.) as part H; and by inserting after part F ( 42 U.S.C. 295h ) the following new part: The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, shall carry out a program under which— the Secretary enters into agreements with specialty medicine physicians to make payments in accordance with subsection
(b)on the principal of and interest on any eligible loans described in subsection (c); and the specialty medicine physicians each agree to complete a period of obligated service described in subsection
(d)as a specialty medicine physician in the United States in a rural community experiencing a shortage of specialty medicine physicians. For each year of obligated service by a specialty medicine physician pursuant to an agreement under subsection (a), the Secretary shall make a payment to such physician as follows: The Secretary shall pay— for each year of obligated service by a specialty medicine physician pursuant to an agreement under subsection (a), 1/6 of the principal of and interest on each eligible loan of the physician which is outstanding on the date the physician began service pursuant to the agreement; and for completion of the sixth and final year of such service, the remainder of such principal and interest. The total amount of payments under this section to any specialty medicine physician shall not exceed $250,000. The loans eligible for repayment under this section are each of the following: Any loan for education in specialty medicine. Any Federal Direct Stafford Loan, Federal Direct PLUS Loan, Federal Direct Unsubsidized Stafford Loan, or Federal Direct Consolidation Loan (as such terms are used in section 455 of the Higher Education Act of 1965). Any Federal Perkins Loan under part E of title I of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Any other Federal loan as determined appropriate by the Secretary. Any specialty medicine physician receiving payments under this section as required by an agreement under subsection
(a)shall agree to a 6-year commitment to full-time employment, with no more than 1 year passing between any 2 years of covered employment, as a specialty medicine physician in the United States in a rural community experiencing a shortage of specialty medicine physicians. No borrower may, for the same service, receive a reduction of loan obligations or a loan repayment under both— this section; and any Federally supported loan forgiveness program, including under section 338B, 338I, or 846 of this Act, or section 428J, 428L, 455(m), or 460 of the Higher Education Act of 1965. The Secretary may establish a liquidated damages formula to be used in the event of a breach of an agreement entered into under subsection (a). The failure by a specialty medicine physician to complete the full period of service obligated pursuant to such an agreement, taken alone, shall not constitute a breach of the agreement, so long as the physician completed in good faith the years of service for which payments were made to the physician under this section. Not later than 5 years after the date of enactment of this section, and not less than every other year thereafter through fiscal year 2030, the Secretary shall report to Congress on— the practice location of physicians participating, or who have participated, in the loan repayment program under this section; and the impact of the loan repayment program under this section on the availability of specialty medicine services in the United States in rural communities experiencing a shortage of specialty medicine physicians. In this section, the term specialty medicine physician means a physician practicing in a specialty identified in the December 2008 report of the Health Resources and Services Administration entitled The Physician Workforce: Projections and Research into Current Issues Affecting Supply and Demand as a specialty whose baseline projected demand exceeds its projected supply for the period of 2005 through 2020. To carry out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for fiscal years 2021 through 2030. .
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