TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 61

IDAHO CONRAD J-1 VISA WAIVER AND NATIONAL INTEREST WAIVER PROGRAMS

39-6111B.  criteria for the national interest waiver petitioning physician. The national interest waiver petitioning physician must:

(1)(a)  Provide direct patient care full time; and

(b)  Be trained in:

(i)   Family medicine;

(ii)  Internal medicine;

(iii) Pediatrics;

(iv)  Obstetrics and gynecology;

(v)   General surgery;

(vi)  Psychiatry and its subspecialties; or

(vii) Other specialties licensed or eligible for licensure by the Idaho board of medicine, if there is a demonstrated need by the applicant organization.

(2)  Apply and be eligible for an active Idaho medical license. The physician may be participating in an accredited residency program for this application, but must have successfully completed the third year of his residency training program for his employment contract to be activated. The physician must have an unrestricted license to practice in the state of Idaho and be board-certified or eligible in his respective medical specialty at the commencement of employment. A copy of the acknowledgment of receipt form from the state board of medicine must be included in the waiver request.

(3)  Agree with all provisions of the employment contract as described in section 39-6109A, Idaho Code. Other negotiable terms of the contract are between the physician and the hiring agency.

(4)(a)(i)  Agree to work full time for no less than five (5) years in an area of underservice in the state of Idaho unless the physician qualifies for the three (3) year service provision under the applicable national interest waiver rules and regulations or the physician is transferring from another area of underservice;

(ii)  Provide health care to medicare and medicaid beneficiaries; and

(iii) Serve all individuals within a shortage designation population, including low-income and uninsured individuals; or

(b)  Serve the population of a local, state or federal governmental institution or corrections facility as an employee of the institution.

History:

[(39-6111B) 39-6111A, added 2009, ch. 106, sec. 13, p. 333; am. 2014, ch. 61, sec. 3, p. 146; am. and redesig. 2017, ch. 72, sec. 10, p. 178; am. 2023, ch. 31, sec. 8, p. 155.]