FISCAL YEAR 2016 MEDICAL CORPS OFFICER SPECIAL PAY PLAN A. PURPOSE: To promulgate pay rates and policy for the Navy Medical Corps Officer special pay program. B. APPLICABILITY: The provisions of this policy memorandum apply to the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and officers within the Medical Corps of the Navy. C. TERMS AND DEFINITIONS: 1. Medical Corps Officer. An officer of the Medical Corps of the Navy, who is on active duty under a call or order to active duty for a period of not less than one year. 2. Creditable Service. Includes all periods that the officer spent in graduate medical education i.e. completed internships, residencies, fellowships while not on active duty and all periods of active duty as a Medical Corps officer. 3. Subspecialties. Subspecialties are grouped for pay purposes into the following categories: a. Subspecialty Category I. Includes cardio-thoracic surgery, colon and rectal surgery, oncology surgery, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, trauma/critical care surgery, vascular surgery and fellowship trained orthopedic surgeons. b. Subspecialty Category II. Includes nuclear medicine physicians. c. Subspecialty Category III. Includes internal medicine and pediatric fellowship trained physicians in: allergy/immunology, nephrology, hematology/oncology, and neonatology. d. Subspecialty Category IV. Includes all internal medicine/pediatric subspecialties not listed in Subspecialty Category I or III or listed separately in Table 1. e. Subspecialty Category V. Includes physicians who are fellowship trained in ophthalmology, otolaryngology, obstetrics/gynecology, and urology. 4. Residency. A successfully completed formal program of medical specialty or subspecialty training. 5. Specialty. Medical specialty for which there is an identifying specialty skill identifier number and a Naval Officer Billet Classification number.
enter into a new DOMRB service agreement at the annual rate in effect at the time of execution of the new agreement. The length of the new DOMRB agreement period must be equal to or longer than the original obligation period specified in the DOMRB agreement being terminated. I. INCENTIVE SPECIAL PAY (ISP) FOR ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGEONS: 1. Eligibility. A Dental Corps officer who is an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon: a. who is below the grade of O-7 and b. who has a current, valid, unrestricted license or approved waiver, and c. who has completed specialty qualification before October 1 of the fiscal year in which the officer enters into an agreement except for cases listed in paragraph 4, below, and d. who remains privileged and practicing during the length of the ISP agreement in the specialty for which the ISP agreement authorizes member to receive payment for or has a waiver, which must be endorsed by their Corps Chief, and approved by Deputy Chief, BUMED, Total Force (M1). e. who executes a written agreement to remain on Active Duty for a period of not less than one year beginning on the date the officer accepts the award of ISP. Note: Subject to the acceptance by the Chief, BUMED (or designee), a Dental Corps officer must be currently credentialed and privileged at a medical/dental treatment facility in oral and maxillofacial surgery. 2. Single year ISP payments are $30,000 for contracts beginning on or after October 1, 2014. A multiyear ISP will be in the amount of $50,000 annually and shall be coupled with a two-, three- or four-year DOMRB. 3. The Chief, BUMED (or designee) may approve recommendations for ISP payments to fully qualified oral and maxillofacial surgeons assigned to positions requiring a substantial portion of time performing military unique duties under adverse conditions or in remote locations outside the continental United States or that preclude the ability to spend appropriate time in a clinical setting. A waiver for not meeting privileged and practicing requirements must be endorsed by the Corps Chief and approved by Deputy Chief, BUMED Total Force (M1).
date of residency training, the RB ADSO shall be served concurrently with the RB contract period. Once a General Dentist has begun to serve a RB ADSO, he or she shall serve it concurrently with any existing ADSO for other special pay agreements or medical education and training obligations incurred after the execution date for that particular RB contract. c. Obligations for RB may be served concurrently with any other non-education or training service obligation, to include IP, Board Certified Pay, promotion, non-clinical Doctorate degree, Masters degree, and non-medical military schooling. d. During the discharge of the service obligation associated with the Health Professional Loan Repayment Program (HPLRP), individuals are eligible for RB. The RB ADSO is consecutive to all HPLRP obligations. 5. Annual Pay Amounts for Multiyear RB. Annual payment amounts for multiyear RB contracts shall be in the amounts in Table 3. The RB shall be paid annually on anniversary date of contract. Table 3. Annual RB Pay Discharging an Initial ADSO (1 Year) 2 Years 3 Years 4 Years General Dentist $0 $13,000 $19,000 $25,000 T. WRITTEN AGREEMENT FOR BONUS OR PAY. To receive a bonus or pay authorized under the Consolidated Special Pay Plan (CSPP), a General Dentist determined to be eligible for the bonus or pay shall enter into a written agreement with the Secretary of the Navy U. PAYMENT. A General Dentist who enters into a written agreement with the Secretary of the Navy who specifies conditions for receipt of a bonus or pay described in this instruction is eligible to the full amount of the bonus or pay earned for fulfilling the conditions for such bonus or pay. Specified conditions may include a service obligation and the eligibility requirement described in this instruction. V. TERMINATION AND REPAYMENT OF ELIGIBILITY TO BONUS OR PAY 1. A Commanding Officer may submit a request to Chief, BUMED to terminate at any time, or endorse recommending disapproval a request, a General Dentist’s AB, IP, or RB. Reasons for termination may include, but are not necessarily limited to: Loss of privileges; Courts martial convictions; violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice; failure to maintain a current, unrestricted license to practice medicine, or reasons