Section 1-16A-73.16 - Health care facility employing health care professional to provide portion ofrecruitment incentives.
1-16A-73.16. Health care facility employing health care professional to provide portion of recruitment incentives. Any agreement for the payment of recruitment incentives pursuant to §§ 1-16A-73.13 to 1-16A-73.19, inclusive, shall obligate the facility employing the health care professional to provide a portion of the total amount of recruitment incentives based on the following criteria: health care facilities in communities of two thousand five hundred persons or less shall provide twenty-five percent of recruitment incentive payments and health care facilities in communities of greater than two thousand five hundred persons shall provide fifty percent of recruitment incentive payments. When the facility certifies to the secretary of health that it has paid the full amount for which it is obligated, the secretary of health shall pay to the health care professional the remaining balance of the total recruitment incentive amount. The incentive shall be paid upon the health care professional's completion of the required two-year practice period. However, a facility may pay its portion of the recruitment incentive at any time during the two-year period.
Source: SL 2002, ch 12, § 4; SL 2003, ch 14, § 4.