Virginia Administrative Code › Title 12 - HEALTH › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter 520 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE DENTAL SCHOLARSHIP AND LOAN REPAYMENT PROGRAMS › Part I - Definitions › Section 12VAC5-520-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter
					 shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
"Accredited dental school" means any dental school in the
					 United States receiving accreditation from the Commission on Dental
					 Accreditation.
"Accredited residency" means an advanced dental education
					 program in general or specialty dentistry accredited by the Commission on
					 Dental Accreditation and approved by the American Dental Association.
"Board" or "Board of Health" means the State Board of
					 Health.
"Commissioner" means the State Health Commissioner.
"Dental practice" means the practice of dentistry by a
					 recipient in general or specialty dentistry in a geographic area determined to
					 be fulfillment of the recipient's scholarship or loan repayment obligation or
					 practice as a dentist within a designated state facility.
"Dental underserved area" means a geographic area in
					 Virginia designated by the State Board of Health as a county or city in which
					 the ratio of practitioners of dentistry to population is less than that for the
					 Commonwealth as a whole as determined by the commissioner or a dental health
					 professions shortage area using criteria described in Part II (12VAC5-520-80 et seq.) of this
					 chapter.
"Dentist loan repayment program" means the program
					 established by § 32.1-122.9:1 of the Code of Virginia that allocates funds
					 appropriated in conjunction with the dental scholarship program to increase the
					 number of dentists in underserved areas of Virginia.
"Designated state facility" means practice as a dentist in
					 a facility operated by the Virginia Department of Health, Virginia Department
					 of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Virginia Department of
					 Juvenile Justice, or the Virginia Department of Corrections.
"Full-time dental practice" means the practice of dentistry
					 for an average of a minimum of 32 hours per week excluding those exceptions
					 enumerated in Part III (12VAC5-520-160 et
					 seq.) of this chapter.
"Interest at the prevailing bank rate for similar amounts
					 of unsecured debt" means the prime lending rate plus 2.0% as published in the
					 Wall Street Journal on the first day of the month in which the decision to
					 repay is communicated to the commissioner by the recipient or on the first day
					 of the month that the commissioner determines the recipient to be in
					 default.
"Loan repayment award" means an award paid to a dentist for
					 dental school loans in an amount equivalent to the current in-state tuition and
					 mandatory fees at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry, and for
					 which the dentist is under a contractual obligation to repay through practice
					 in an underserved area or designated state facility. This amount may be capped
					 at the discretion of the commissioner.
"Practice of general or specialty dentistry" means the
					 evaluation, diagnosis, prevention and treatment (nonsurgical, surgical or
					 related procedures) of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity,
					 maxillofacial and adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the
					 human body.
"Restitution" means three times the award amount received
					 plus interest at the prevailing bank rate for similar amounts of unsecured debt
					 as set forth in this regulation, owed to the Commonwealth of Virginia by a
					 scholarship or loan repayment recipient who is in default of his contractual
					 obligation as provided for in this chapter.
"Scholarship award" means an amount equivalent to one year
					 of in-state tuition and mandatory fees at Virginia Commonwealth University
					 School of Dentistry for the academic year a student is enrolled and for which
					 the dental student entered a contractual obligation to repay through practice
					 in an underserved area or designated state facility. This amount may be capped
					 at the discretion of the commissioner.
"Scholarship recipient" means an eligible dental student
					 who enters into a contract with the commissioner and receives one or more
					 scholarship awards from the Virginia Dental Scholarship Program.
"Specialty dentistry" means the advanced practice of
					 dentistry in any specialty approved by the American Dental Association and
					 accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation.
Statutory Authority
§ 32.1-122.9 of the Code of Virginia.