Bill > HF972

This bill addresses multiple aspects of Iowa's healthcare system, focusing on restructuring and consolidating various health-related programs and initiatives. The bill eliminates several existing healthcare workforce and grant programs while establishing a new Health Care Professional Incentive Program designed to recruit and retain healthcare professionals in underserved areas. The program will offer loan repayments or income bonuses to eligible healthcare professionals who commit to practicing in areas with healthcare professional shortages, with awards ranging up to $200,000 and requiring full-time employment for five years or part-time employment for seven years. The bill also seeks federal approval for a rural health care hub-and-spoke funding model and a Medicaid supplemental enhanced payment to maximize federal funding for graduate medical education and increase medical residencies. Additionally, the bill restructures the Iowa Health Information Network by removing its board of directors and creating an exchange advisory committee appointed by the director of health and human services, which will provide guidance on health information exchange standards and promote health information technology adoption. The bill eliminates several existing health-related award, grant, residency, and fellowship programs, transferring remaining funds to the new incentive program or to support Medicaid graduate medical education efforts, and makes numerous technical changes to align various sections of Iowa's health care statutes.

Budget and Finance

Appropriations (House)

https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=91&ba=HF972