KRS 211.165: Program for repayment of educational loans for primary health -care

professionals who agree to serve in federally designated health professional

shortage areas.

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall establish a loan repayment program to

repay educational loans for primary health -care professionals who agree to serve in

federally designated health professional shortage areas. The program shall:

(1) Apply for federal funds for the program under the Public Health Service Act (42

U.S.C. sec. 254g-1);

(2) Make payments of qualifying educational loans of health professionals agreeing to

provide primary health services in federally designated health professional shortage

areas;

(3) Assign health professionals only to public and private nonprofit entities;

(4) Enter into contracts with participants with remedies for breach of contract by the

health professional; and

(5) Make available nonfederal contributions towards contracts with individual health

professionals in an amount not less than one dollar ( $1) for each one dollar ($1) of

federal funds provided. In meeting this matching fund requirement, the state shall

provide fifty percent (50%) of the state's share from state funds, and the remaining

fifty percent (50%) shall be provided from local governm ents or other community -

based resources from the area in which the health professional will be serving.