36.61(6)
(6) Local participation. The board shall encourage contributions to the program under this section by counties, cities, villages and towns. Funds received under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation account under
s. 20.285 (1) (jc).
36.61(6m)(a)(a) The board shall, by rule, establish penalties to be assessed by the board against health care providers who breach an agreement entered into under
sub. (3) (a). The rules shall do all of the following:
36.61(6m)(a)1.
1. Specify what actions constitute a breach of the agreement.
36.61(6m)(a)2.
2. Provide specific penalty amounts for specific breaches.
36.61(6m)(a)3.
3. Provide exceptions for certain actions, including breaches resulting from death or disability.
36.61(6m)(b)
(b) Any penalties assessed and collected under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation account under
s. 20.285 (1) (jc).
36.61(7)
(7) Administration. The board shall do all of the following:
36.61(7)(a)
(a) Identify communities with an extremely high need for health care, including dental health care.
36.61(7)(b)
(b) Publicize the program under this section to health care providers and eligible communities.
36.61(7)(c)
(c) Assist health care providers who are interested in applying for the program under this section.
36.61(7)(d)
(d) Assist communities in obtaining the services of health care providers through the program under this section.
36.61(7)(e)
(e) Notwithstanding
subs. (3) (b) and
(5) (a) and
(b), ensure that moneys appropriated under
s. 20.285 (1) (qj) are used under this section only to repay loans on behalf of health care providers who agree to practice in a rural area.
36.61(8)
(8) Expanded loan assistance program. The board may agree to repay loans as provided under this section on behalf of a health care provider under an expanded health care provider loan assistance program that is funded through federal funds in addition to state matching funds. To be eligible for loan repayment under the expanded health care provider loan assistance program, a health care provider must fulfill all of the requirements for loan repayment under this section, as well as all of the following:
36.61(8)(a)
(a) The health care provider must be a U.S. citizen.
36.61(8)(b)
(b) The health care provider may not have a judgment lien against his or her property for a debt to the United States.
36.61(8)(c)
(c) The health care provider must agree to do all of the following:
36.61(8)(c)1.
1. Accept medicare assignment as payment in full for services or articles provided.
36.61(8)(c)2.
2. Use a sliding fee scale or a comparable method of determining payment arrangements for patients who are not eligible for medicare or medical assistance and who are unable to pay the customary fee for the health care provider's services.
36.61(8)(c)3.
3. Practice at a public or private nonprofit entity in a health professional shortage area, if the health care provider is not a dental hygienist, or in a dental health shortage area, if the health care provider is a dental hygienist.
36.61 History
History: 2009 a. 28 ss.
3046 to
3056; Stats. 2009 s. 36.61;
2009 a. 190,
276.
36.62
36.62
Rural health development council. The rural health development council created under
s. 15.917 (1) shall do all of the following:
36.62(1)
(1) Advise the board on matters related to the physician and dentist loan assistance program under
s. 36.60 and the health care provider loan assistance program under
s. 36.61.
36.62(2)
(2) Advise the board on the amount, up to $25,000, to be repaid on behalf of each health care provider who participates in the health care provider loan assistance program under
s. 36.61.
36.62 History
History: 2009 a. 28 s.
3057; Stats. 2009 s. 36.62.
36.63
36.63
Rural physician residency assistance program. 36.63(1)(a)
(a) "Department" means the department of family medicine in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
36.63(1)(b)
(b) "Physician" means a physician, as defined in
s. 448.01 (5), who specializes in family practice, general surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, pediatrics or psychiatry.
36.63(1)(c)
(c) "Rural area" means any of the following:
36.63(1)(c)1.
1. A city, town, or village in this state that has a population of less than 20,000 and that is at least 15 miles from any city, town, or village that has a population of at least 20,000.
36.63(1)(c)2.
2. An area in this state that is not an urbanized area, as defined by the federal bureau of the census.
36.63(2)(a)(a) The department shall establish and support physician residency positions to which one of the following applies:
36.63(2)(a)1.
1. The residency position is in a hospital that is located in a rural area or in a clinic staffed by physicians who admit patients to a hospital located in a rural area.
36.63(2)(a)2.
2. The residency position includes a rural rotation, begun after June 30, 2010, which consists of at least 8 weeks of training experience in a hospital that is located in a rural area or in a clinic staffed by physicians who admit patients to a hospital located in a rural area.
36.63(2)(b)
(b) In establishing and supporting residency positions under
par. (a), the department shall give preference to residency programs that actively recruit graduates of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the Medical College of Wisconsin.
36.63(3)
(3) Annually by December 1, the department shall submit a plan for increasing the number of physician residency programs that include a majority of training experience in a rural area to the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, the Wisconsin Hospital Association, and the Wisconsin Medical Society. The plan shall include a detailed proposed budget for expending the moneys appropriated to the board under
s. 20.285 (1) (qe) and demonstrate that the moneys do not supplant existing funding. The department shall consider comments made by the organizations in formulating its final budget.
36.63(4)
(4) Annually by December 1, the department shall submit to the joint committee on finance a report that includes all of the following:
36.63(4)(a)
(a) The number of physician residency positions that existed in the 2009-10 fiscal year, and in each fiscal year beginning after July 1, 2010, that included a majority of training experience in a rural area.
36.63(4)(b)1.1. The number of such physician residency positions funded in whole or in part under this section in the previous fiscal year.
36.63(4)(b)2.
2. The eligibility criteria met by each such residency position and the hospital or clinic with which the position is affiliated.
36.63(4)(b)3.
3. The medical school attended by the physician filling each such residency position.
36.63(4)(b)4.
4. The year the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education certified the residency position.
36.63(4)(b)5.
5. The reason the residency position had not been funded.
36.63 History
History: 2009 a. 190.
