KRS 164.935: Physician recruitment and placement services for underserved geographic

areas.

(1) As used in this section:

(a) "Physician" means a medical doctor practicing full -time family medicine,

general obstetrics and gynecology, general pediatrics, or general internal

medicine; and

(b) "Underserved geographic area" means a county in which the ratio between

physicians practicing full -time in that county and the county's population

results in each physician serving two thousand five hundred (2,500) or more

residents, based on population data acceptable to either the University of

Kentucky or the University of Louisville.

(2) The University of Kentucky and University of Louisville shall establish and

maintain physician recruitment and placement services, the princi pal function of

which shall be to recruit or place family or general practice physicians in

underserved geographic areas. The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall pay

each university fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) annually for basic administrativ e

costs in addition to the fees enumerated in subsection (4) of this section.

(3) Physician recruitment and placement services may be contracted by licensed health-

care facilities or services to assist in recruiting physicians in underserved

geographic are as. Fees shall be charged by the University of Kentucky or the

University of Louisville to the contracting party in an amount not to exceed ten

thousand dollars ($10,000) per physician.

(4) If no licensed health-care facility or service has contracted for recruitment services,

when the University of Kentucky or the University of Louisville places a physician

in an underserved geographic area or a psychiatrist in a state mental health facility,

the following fees shall be paid to the university by the Cabine t for Health and

Family Services, the total of which shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000)

per university in addition to the fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) per university

enumerated in subsection (2) of this section:

(a) Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for a family practice physician entering

permanent, full-time practice;

(b) Ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for a psychiatrist entering full -time permanent

employment in a state mental health facility;

(c) Eight thousand dollars ($8,000) for a gen eral obstetrician -gynecologist

entering permanent, full-time practice;

(d) Two thousand dollars ($2,000) for a general pediatrician or general internal

medicine practitioner entering permanent, full-time practice; and

(e) One thousand dollars ($1,000) for any other licensed medical practitioner

entering permanent, full-time practice.

(5) Fees paid to the universities under the provisions of subsection (3) of this section

shall be made only after sufficient proof has been presented documenting the

university's principal role in influencing the physician's practice location.

Correspondence from physicians placed, as well as all other parties directly

involved, shall state that the university substantially influenced the physician's

choice of practice location and describe in detail the services provided by the

university.