What's happening
This bill requires a work group to assess and review the fairness and accessibility of the physician grant application process, especially for individuals in underserved areas.
Why it matters
Focuses on equity for individual applicants. By requiring a review of how the grant application process affects individuals versus institutions, the bill aims to identify and address barriers that solo physicians or small practices—especially those in underserved areas—might face when seeking support.
Explicit attention to underserved areas. The work group is specifically tasked with analyzing application outcomes in underserved regions, signaling a legislative intent to close geographic and resource-based disparities in physician support programs.
Scrutinizes the New York State Grant Gateway. Mandating a “thorough review” of the Grant Gateway’s accessibility and fairness for individuals could lead to recommendations for major changes or improvements, potentially making future funding more attainable for those previously disadvantaged by the system.
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Who cares
Individual physicians applying for loan repayment or practice support
The bill would require a review of the accessibility and fairness of the New York State Grant Gateway for individual applicants.
General hospitals and other health care facilities
Their associations would recommend work group members to assess how the grant application process affects individual versus institutional applicant numbers in underserved areas.
New York State Department of Health
The department would have to appoint the work group to assess the application process and review the Grant Gateway by March 31, 2020.
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Review Doctor Loan Applications
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Sponsors
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History
- Substituted by S4269
- Advanced to third reading cal.417
- Reported
- Referred to health
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Review Doctor Grant Process
Vetoed · Sponsor Gustavo Rivera
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5425
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to applications for funds under the physician loan repayment and physician practice support programs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (e-1) of subdivision 5-a of section 2807-m of the public health law, as amended by section 6 of part H of chapter 57 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
(e-1) Work group. For funding available pursuant to paragraphs (d) and (e) of this subdivision:
(i) The department shall appoint a work group from recommendations made by associations representing physicians, general hospitals and other health care facilities to develop a streamlined application process by June first, two thousand twelve.
(ii) Subject to available funding, applications shall be accepted on a continuous basis. The department shall provide technical assistance to applicants to facilitate their completion of applications. An applicant shall be notified in writing by the department within ten days of receipt of an application as to whether the application is complete and if the application is incomplete, what information is outstanding. The department shall act on an application within thirty days of receipt of a complete application.
(iii) The department shall appoint a work group including individuals recommended by associations representing physicians, general hospitals and other health care facilities, to assess the impact of the current grant application process on the number of individual applicants versus institutional applicants in underserved areas and shall include a thorough review of the accessibility and fairness of the New York State Grant Gateway for individual applicants by March thirty-first, two thousand twenty.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09679-01-9
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