Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 581 - LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE FOR PHYSICIANS › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 581.100 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Loan Repayment Assistance for Physicians Act
				  [110 ILCS
				  949 ].
"Administrative law judge" shall have the meaning ascribed in
				  the Department's Practice and Procedure in Administrative Hearings.
"Applicant" means a person who submits an application to the
				  Department to receive a physician loan repayment assistance grant.
"Business day" means Monday through Friday. It does not
				  include a federal or State government declared holiday, Saturday or
				  Sunday.
"Calendar day" means all days in a month or prescribed time
				  frame. It includes weekends and federal or State government declared
				  holidays.
"Commercial lending institution" means a bank, credit union
				  or financial company that makes loans.
"Department" means the Department of Public
				  Health.
(Section 10 of the Act)
"Educational loans" means higher education student
				  loans that a person has incurred in attending a registered professional
				  physician education program, including a medical school or a chiropractic
				  college or institution.
(Section 10 of the Act)
"Full-time practice" means maintaining office hours for
				  patient care that equal or exceed the mean number of office hours and face to
				  face patient visits per week reported by physicians, by specialty, and
				  published in the American Medical Association's "Socioeconomic Characteristics
				  of Medical Practice, 2002", incorporated by reference in Section
				  581.110.
"Grant" means funds awarded under the Act.
"Grant agreement" means the agreement entered into between
				  the Department and any person or entity for obligation, capital expenditure or
				  use for a specific purpose.
"Grantee" means a
person or entity which may use
				  grant funds
(Section 2(c) of the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery
				  Act).
"
Grant funds
" means
public funds
				  dispensed
by the Department
to any person or entity for
				  obligation, expenditure or use for a specific purpose.
(Section 2(b)
				  of the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act)
"Grant period" means the duration of the loan repayment
				  benefit, which is one year.
"Illinois resident" means a person who has been a resident of
				  Illinois for at least one year prior to applying for loan repayment assistance
				  and is a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States.
"Lawful permanent resident" means a person who is not a
				  citizen of the United States but who resides in the United States under legally
				  recognized requirements and lawfully records his/her permanent residence with
				  the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
"Metropolitan statistical area" or "MSA" means one or more
				  adjacent counties that have at least one urban core area of at least 50,000
				  population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and
				  economic integration with the core, as measured by commuting ties.
"Physician" means a person licensed under the
				  Medical Practice Act of 1987
[225 ILCS 60
				  ]
.
(Section 10 of the Act)
"Program" means the educational loan repayment
				  assistance program for physicians established by the Department under the
				  Act.
(Section 10 of the Act)
"Registered professional physician education program" means
				  any accredited private or public nonprofit school that provides education
				  leading to a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy degree.
"Rural" means any geographic area not located in a U.S.
				  Census Bureau Metropolitan Statistical Area; or a county located within a
				  Metropolitan Statistical Area but having a population of 60,000 or less; or a
				  geographic area located within a Metropolitan Statistical Area but having a
				  population of 2,500 or less.
"Service term" means the length of time that the physician is
				  obligated to serve as a physician in Illinois as the result of receiving loan
				  repayment funds from the Department.
"Urban" means any geographic area that does not meet the
				  definition of "rural" in this Section.