SF 2092: Allowing radiologists to participate in the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment program

What it does

This bill allows radiologists to participate in the rural Iowa primary care loan repayment program, which is administered by the college student aid commission. The program provides loan repayments for medical students who agree to practice as physicians in service commitment areas for five consecutive years after graduating from a residency program and receiving a permanent license to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this state. For purposes of the program, a service commitment area is a city that provides a $20,000 contribution to the rural Iowa primary care trust fund for each physician in the community who is participating in the program, and the city is either within a federal mental health shortage area, if the physician participating in the program specializes in psychiatry, or the city has a population of less than 26,000 and is located more than miles from a city with a population of 50,000.

Senate subcommittee · named January 25, 2024

• Sen. J. Taylor
• Sen. Jesse Green (R) · jesse.green@legis.iowa.gov
• Sen. Herman C. Quirmbach (D) · herman.quirmbach@legis.iowa.gov

Lobbying · 3 for, 0 against

For: Iowa Independent Physician Group; Iowa Radiological Society; MercyOne

In plain words

1. January 23, 2024Filed in the Senate and sent to the Education committee
2. January 25, 2024Senate subcommittee named: J. Taylor, Green and Quirmbach
3. February 1, 2024Subcommittee recommended passing it