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Senate committee releases bill to expand and raise cap on primary care loan redemption program
Summary
The Senate Higher Education Committee released S780 to rename and expand the primary care practitioner loan redemption program, raise the maximum redemption from $120,000 to $200,000, require annual reporting and county Medicaid data sharing, and broaden eligible fields and approved-site rules.
The Senate Higher Education Committee voted to release Senate Bill 7 80 on committee amendments that rename the program’s service-area definition, expand eligible health fields, raise the maximum loan redemption from $120,000 to $200,000 and add new reporting and site-approval requirements.
Committee staff summarized amendments that would change “state designated underserved areas” to “state designated medically underserved area,” require the Commissioner of Human Services to transmit county-level Medicaid-enrollee percentages annually to the executive director, and direct the executive director…
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