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House OKs pilot to reward clinicians who take medical students
Summary
Lawmakers approved a pilot program giving administrative relief and incentives to clinicians who provide substantial preceptorship hours to medical students, including targeted slots for family practice, OB-GYN and psychology; the measure includes pilot limits and department rulemaking.
The Idaho House passed a measure creating a pilot program that incentives medical professionals in specific specialties to take medical students for preceptorships.
Sponsor Representative (Speaker 9) described House Bill 7 88 as building on prior work to expand the medical pipeline. Under the proposal, clinicians in three specialties—family practice, OB-GYN and psychology—who provide at least 360 clinical hours in a year to students would qualify for an exemption from certain prior-authorization requirements for the following year, subject to department guardrails and potential audits. The program is capped, the sponsor said, with the department directed to limit participation to no more than 100 clinicians per specialty as a pilot.
Opponents raised concerns about giving additional rulemaking authority to the administering department, but supporters said the regulatory burden imposed by necessary rules would be substantially less than the administrative work clinicians face under current prior-authorization processes.
The House approved the bill on a recorded vote and will transmit it to the Senate.
