2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-5668 — Loan repayment recipient agreement; contents.

Section 71-5668
Loan repayment recipient agreement; contents.
Section 71-5668

Each loan repayment recipient shall execute an agreement with the department and a local entity. Such agreement shall include, at a minimum, the following terms:

(1) The loan repayment recipient agrees to practice his or her profession, and a physician, dentist, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant also agrees to practice an approved specialty, in a designated health profession shortage area for at least three years and to accept medicaid patients in his or her practice;

(2) In consideration of the agreement by the recipient, the State of Nebraska and a local entity within the designated health profession shortage area will provide equal funding for the repayment of the recipient's qualified educational debts, in amounts up to twenty thousand dollars per year per recipient for physicians, dentists, and psychologists and up to ten thousand dollars per year per recipient for physician assistants, advanced practice registered nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and mental health practitioners toward qualified educational debts for up to three years. The department shall make payments directly to the recipient; and

(3) If the loan repayment recipient discontinues practice in the shortage area prior to completion of the three-year requirement, the recipient shall repay to the state one hundred twenty-five percent of the total amount of funds provided to the recipient for loan repayment. Upon repayment by the recipient to the department, the department shall reimburse the local entity its share of the funds.

Source:

Laws 1991, LB 400, § 19

Laws 1993, LB 536, § 101

Laws 1994, LB 1223, § 64

Laws 1996, LB 1155, § 56

Laws 1997, LB 577, § 5

Laws 2000, LB 1115, § 84

Laws 2001, LB 214, § 5

Laws 2004, LB 1005, § 108

Laws 2006, LB 962, § 3.

~Revised Statutes Cumulative Supplement, 2006