Section 23.67 - [Effective until 11/14/2024] Application Ranking Criteria(a) Application deadlines will be established throughout the fiscal year and will be posted on the program web page. Primary care physicians practicing in HPSAs whose initial applications have been approved are considered to be enrolled in the program. Applications from all other physicians are considered annually. If there are not sufficient funds to offer loan repayment assistance for all eligible physicians whose applications are received by the stated deadline, applications shall be ranked according to the following criteria, in priority order: (1) applications from physicians practicing in HPSAs, in the following priority order: (A) renewal applications from primary care physicians;(B) applications from primary care physicians practicing in rural HPSAs;(C) applications from primary care physicians practicing in non-rural areas whose HPSA scores reflect the highest degrees of shortage;(2) renewal applications from non-primary care physicians practicing in HPSAs;(3) initial applications from non-primary care physicians practicing in HPSAs;(b) the first ten applications received each year from eligible physicians serving persons committed to a secure correctional facility operated by or under contract with the Texas Juvenile Justice Department or its successor or persons confined to a secure correctional facility operated by or under contract with any division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice or its successor;(c) applications from primary care physicians who have provided outpatient health care services to a designated number of Medicaid or Texas Women's Health Program enrollees, as established annually by methods outlined in the Board's Memorandum of Understanding with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, in the following order of priority: (1) renewal applications;(2) applications from physicians practicing in a rural county;(3) applications from geriatricians;(4) applications from physicians having the greatest amount of student loan debt.19 Tex. Admin. Code § 23.67
The provisions of this § 23.67 adopted to be effective November 30, 2009, 34 TexReg 8524; amended to be effective November 29, 2011, 36 TexReg 8022; amended to be effective November 20, 2013, 38 TexReg 8196; Adopted by Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 08, February 19, 2016, TexReg 1231, eff. 2/22/2016; transferred from 21.256 Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 48, November 25, 2016, TexReg 9341, eff. 12/15/2016; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 47, November 20, 2020, TexReg 8343, eff. 11/22/2020