Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 580 - LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE FOR DENTISTS › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 580.100 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Act" means the Loan Repayment Assistance for Dentists Act
				  [110 ILCS 948 ].
"Administrative law judge" shall have the meaning ascribed in
				  the Department's Practice and Procedure in Administrative Hearings (77 Ill.
				  Adm. Code 100).
"Applicant" means a person who submits an application to the
				  Department to receive a dental 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.
"Dental hygienist" means a person who holds a dental
				  hygienist license under the Illinois Dental Practice Act to perform dental
				  services as authorized by Section 18 of the Illinois Dental Practice Act.
				  (Section 10 of the Act)
"Dental payments" means compensation provided to dentists and
				  dental specialists for services rendered under Article V of the Illinois Public
				  Aid Code
[305 ILCS 5 /Art. V], the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance
				  Act [215 ILCS 170 ] , or the Children's Health Insurance Program Act [215 ILCS
				  106 ] administered by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services
				  (HFS). (Section 10 of the Act)
"Dental specialist" means a person who has received a license
				  as a dentist in this State and who is trained and qualified to practice in one
				  or more of the following specialties of dentistry: endodontics, oral and
				  maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, pedodontics, periodontics, and
				  prosthodontics. (Section 10 of the Act)
"Dentist" means a person who has received a general license
				  pursuant to Section 11(a) of the Illinois Dental Practice Act [225
				  ILCS 25/11(a) ], who may perform any
				  intraoral and extraoral procedure required in the practice of dentistry, and to
				  whom are reserved the responsibilities specified in Section 17 of the Illinois
				  Dental Practice Act. (Section 10 of the Act)
"Department" means the Department of Public Health. (Section
				  10 of the Act)
"Designated shortage area" means a dental Health Professional
				  Shortage Area (HPSA) as defined by the United States Department of Health and
				  Human Services (Designation of Health Professional Shortage Areas ( 42 CFR 5,
				  51 c ) and the Public Health Service Act (
				  42
				  USC 216,
				  254 c ))
				  or as otherwise designated by 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 dental education
				  program. (Section 10 of the Act)
"Full-Time Practice" means a dental practice with a 40-hour
				  work week where at least 32 hours of the 40 hours per week are spent providing
				  clinical services. These services shall be conducted during normally scheduled
				  clinic hours in the ambulatory care setting offices. The remaining hours shall
				  be spent providing inpatient care and/or in practice-related administrative
				  activities. The 40 hours per week may be compressed into no fewer than four
				  days per week, with no more than 12 hours of work to be performed in any
				  24-hour period. Time spent in "on-call" status will not count toward the
				  40-hour week. Hours worked over the required 40 hours per week will not be
				  applied to any other work week.
"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.
"Health Professional Shortage Area" or "HPSA" means a
				  designation provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
				  Health Resources and Services Administration. The HPSA designation indicates
				  the shortage of primary medical care, dental or mental health providers. The
				  designation may be geographic (a county or service area), demographic (low
				  income population) or institutional (comprehensive health center, FQHC or other
				  public facility). HPSA designations can be found at http://hpsafind [File Link
				  Not Available]. hrsa.gov/.
"Health Professional Shortage Area Score" or "HPSA Score"
				  means the HPSA shortage severity score calculated by the United States
				  Department of Health and Human Services, Bureau of Health Professionals when a
				  HPSA is federally designated.
"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.
"Low income person" means a person whose income is at or
				  below 200% of the federal poverty level guideline as determined by the most
				  recent U.S. Census Bureau's decennial census information.
"Low income patients" mean patients in the dental practice
				  whose income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty level guideline as
				  determined by the most recent U.S. Census Bureau's decennial census
				  information.
"Medical assistance" means services for medical and dental
				  assistance provided under Article V of the Illinois Public Aid Code.
"Medical assistance reimbursement documentation" means the
				  documentation of medical assistance reimbursement dollars that dentists receive
				  from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services for dental
				  services provided to medical assistance recipients.
"Metropolitan Statistical Area" or "MSA" means one or more
				  adjacent counties that have at least one urban core area of at least 50,000 in
				  population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and
				  economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties.
"Program" means the educational loan repayment assistance
				  program for dentists and dental specialists or dental hygienists established by
				  the Department under the Act. (Section 10 of the Act)
"Registered professional dental education program" means a
				  dental school accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on
				  Dental Accreditation.
"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 area" means the geographic area of the HPSA.
"Service term" means the length of time that the dentist,
				  dental hygienist or dental specialist will receive loan repayment funds from
				  the Department while serving a dental HPSA.
"Urban" means any geographic area that does not meet the
				  definition of "rural" in this Section.