211.165 Program for repayment of educational loans for primary health-care
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professionals who agree to serve in federally designated health professional
shortage areas. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall establish a loan repayment program to repay educational loans for primary health-care professionals who agree to serve in federally designated health professional shortage areas. The program shall:
(1)Apply for federal funds for the program under the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. sec. 254g-1);
(2)Make payments of qualifying educational loans of health professionals agreeing to
provide primary health services in federally designated health professional shortage
areas;
(3)Assign health professionals only to public and private nonprofit entities;
(4)Enter into contracts with participants with remedies for breach of contract by the
health professional; and
(5)Make available nonfederal contributions towards contracts with individual health
professionals in an amount not less than one dollar ($1) for each one dollar ($1) of
federal funds provided. In meeting this matching fund requirement, the state shall
provide fifty percent (50%) of the state's share from state funds, and the remaining
fifty percent (50%) shall be provided from local governments or other community-
based resources from the area in which the health professional will be serving.