Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/806

 90 STAT. 2274

PUBLIC LAW 94-484-OCT. 12, 1976 to health manpower shortage areas. Such studies shall include studies of— " Q) the characteristics of physicians, dentists, and other health proiessionals who are more likely to remain in practice in health manpower shortage areas; "(2) the characteristics, including utilization and reimbursement patterns, of areas which have been able to retain health manpower personnel; and "(3) the appropriate conditions for the assignment and use of nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and expanded function dental auxiliaries in health manpower shortage areas. "(h) Notwithstanding any other law, any member of the Corps licensed to practice medicine, osteopathy, or dentistry in any State shall, while serving in the Corps, be allowed to practice such profession in any State. "COST SHARING

42 USC 254g.

"SEC. 334. (a) The Secretary shall require, as a condition to the approval of an application under section 333, that the entity which submitted the application enter into an agreement for a specific assignment period (not to exceed 4 years) with the Secretary under which— "(1) the entity shall be responsible for charging, in accordance with subsection (d), for health services provided by Corps members assigned to the entity; "(2) the entity shall take such action as may be reasonable for the collection or payments for such health services, including, if a Federal agency, an agency of a State or local government, or other third party would be responsible for all or part of the cost of such health services if it had not been provided by Corps members under this subpart, the collection, on a fee-for-service or other basis, from such agency or third party, the portion of such cost for which it would be so responsible (and in determining the amount of such cost which such agency or third party would be responsible, the health services provided by Corps members shall be considered as being provided by private practitioners); " ^) the entity shall pay to the United States, as prescribed by the Secretary in each calendar quarter (or other period as may be specified in the agreement) during which any Corps member is assigned to such entity, the sum of— " (A) the portion of the salary (including amounts paid in accordance with section 331(d)) and allowances of any Corps member received by such member during such calendar quarter (or other period) while such member was assigned to such entity; " (B) for any Corps member assigned to such entity, an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount paid under the Scholarship Program to or on the behalf of such Corps member as the number of days of obligated service provided by such member during such quarter (or other period) bears to the number of days in his period of obligated service under such Program; and "(C) it such entity received a loan under section 335(c), an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount of such loan as the number of days in such quarter (or other period) during which any Corps members were assigned to the entity bears to the number of days in the assignment period after such entity received such loan; and

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