OAR 409-036-0080
Maximum Award Amounts

(1) Loan repayment subsidy recipients are eligible for a maximum loan repayment award in the following manner:
(a) Full-Time Service:
(A) Fifty percent of the balance owed on qualifying loans upon program entry for an initial three years of service;
(B) Sixty percent of the balance owed on remaining qualifying loans for an additional three years of service;
(C) Seventy percent of the balance owed on remaining qualifying loans for a final three years of service; and
(D) A participant may receive no more than $50,000 in a single year for full-time service.
(b) Part-Time Service:
(A) Twenty-five percent of the balance owed on qualifying loans upon program entry for an initial three years of service;
(B) Twenty-five percent of the balance owed on remaining qualifying loans for an additional three years of service;
(C) Twenty-five percent of the balance owed on remaining qualifying loans for a final three years of service; and
(D) A participant may receive no more than $25,000 in a single year for part-time service.
(2) Scholarship and Loan Forgiveness recipients are eligible for incentives as follows:
(a) Scholarship recipients under the Scholars for a Healthy Oregon Initiative at Oregon Health and Science University shall receive a scholarship covering the entire cost of tuition and fees for the participant’s health care education at the university.
(b) Students attending other educational institutions shall receive a scholarship or loan forgiveness covering an amount equal to at least half of and up to the entire cost of tuition and fees for the participant’s health care education in the program in which they are participating, at the discretion of the institution, so long as the maximum scholarship for each student does not exceed the highest resident tuition rate at the publicly-funded health professional training programs in this state.
(3) Insurance Subsidy Recipients. Practitioners in the program who receive an insurance subsidy shall receive a maximum subsidy of:
(a) Eighty percent of the actual premium charged for physicians specializing in obstetrics and nurse practitioners certified for obstetric care;
(b) Sixty percent of the actual premium charged for physicians specializing in family or general practice who provide obstetrical services;
(c) Forty percent of the actual premium charged for physicians and nurse practitioners engaging in one or more of the following practices:
(A) Family practice without obstetrical services;
(B) General practice without obstetrical services;
(C) Internal medicine;
(D) Geriatrics;
(E) Pulmonary medicine;
(F) Pediatrics;
(G) General surgery; or
(H) Anesthesiology;
(d) Fifteen percent of the actual premium charged for physicians and nurse practitioners other than those included in OAR 409-036-0080 (Maximum Award Amounts) (3)(a) to (c).
(4) Other subsidies. The Authority may provide grants to an organization to support innovative or evidence-based practices for recruitment and retention of health care providers.

Source: Rule 409-036-0080 — Maximum Award Amounts, https://secure.­sos.­state.­or.­us/oard/view.­action?ruleNumber=409-036-0080.

Last Updated

Jun. 8, 2021

Rule 409-036-0080’s source at or​.us