California Code of Regulations › Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations › Division 10 - Dental Board of California › Chapter 2 - Dentists › Article 4.5 - California Dental Corps Loan Repayment Program › Section 1042.4 - Program Implementation

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Within 60 days of the Board's
				  notification of acceptance into the program, the participating dentist shall
				  sign a written agreement with the Board committing to all terms of the program
				  and acknowledging the amount to be received under the program and that
				  repayment will be made in accordance with Section
				  1975 of the code.
(b) Loan repayment under the program shall be
				  made to the participating dentist and in accordance with Section
				  1975 of the code. If a dentist
				  participating in the program is awarded a loan repayment of less than $105,000,
				  24 percent of the total loan repayment amount will be made after completing one
				  year of service under the program, 33 percent made after completing two
				  consecutive years of service under the program, and 43 percent after completing
				  three consecutive years of service under the program.
(c) Absence from the practice cannot exceed 7
				  weeks, paid or unpaid, in a calendar year, except as otherwise required in
				  order to comply with applicable state and federal law.
(d) If the participating dentist ceases
				  full-time practice, but returns to qualifying full-time practice within 90 days
				  after reduction or termination of employment, loan repayment shall be
				  proportionately reduced by the time spent away from qualifying practice during
				  that contract year. The participating dentist shall notify the Board pursuant
				  to section
				  1042.5(a).
				  Whenever the Board has evidence of such a reduction or termination, the Board
				  shall notify the participating dentist in writing of any proportionate
				  reduction of repayment of funds received under the program. The dentist may
				  petition the Board for modification of the reduction of repayment. The petition
				  shall be in writing, accompanied by those documents necessary to establish the
				  basis for the petition, and shall be filed with the Board not later than 90
				  days after the date of the notification of reduction by the Board. A petition
				  shall be accepted for filing only if it is based on one or more of the
				  following grounds:
(1) The dentist was
				  terminated without cause.
(2) The
				  dentist ceased or reduced full-time employment due to factors beyond the
				  dentist's control.
(3) Both the
				  practice setting and the dentist agreed to the termination of the dentist's
				  employment.
The petition shall be accompanied by a certification under
					 penalty of perjury, signed and dated by the practice setting's administrative
					 officer, whose name is printed below his/her signature, that the participating
					 dentist has returned to full-time employment or, where the participating
					 dentist has found subsequent employment, that the facility has entered into an
					 agreement with the applicant for a minimum of three years; that the applicant
					 can speak a Medi-Cal threshold language effectively in order to provide
					 service; that it will pay the applicant a prevailing wage and not offset any
					 loan repayments by the program against the applicant's salary; and that it is a
					 "practice setting" as defined in Section
					 1971(f) of the
					 code. The participating dentist will be required to sign a new or amended
					 agreement required by section
					 1042.4(a).