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From:
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,104359,00.html
"Difficulties in recruiting the next generation of Army and Navy physicians and dentists have spurred the Senate to approve new authorities to increase dramatically medical bonuses and stipends."
"...the Senate package would:
-- Double, to $30,000 a year, the stipend for HPSP scholarships.
-- Increase to $60,000, from $22,000, maximum student loan repayment to entice more medical and dental school graduates into service.
-- Increase to $45,000, from $15,000, maximum annual grants allowed under the Financial Assistance Program for doctors who choose to complete residency training in the civilian sector before military service.
-- Increase to $25,000, from $10,000, the size of special pay offered to Selected Reserve health professionals trained in critically short wartime specialties. Some who might qualify include emergency room physicians, surgeons, urologists, ophthalmologists and dermatologists. This is the only initiative in the Senate packet that the Bush administration sought.
-- Enhance dental accession bonus authority. Dentists currently are offered an accession bonus of up to $30,000. That would be raised to $200,000, recognizing that dentist salaries in the private sector have increased with demand for their services in an improving economy.
-- Allow a new accession bonus of up to $400,000 for physicians and dentists in war-critical specialties. Enticed from civilian life, the doctors would promise to serve at least four years. Specialists who might qualify include maxillofacial surgeons, thoracic surgeons and orthopedic surgeons.
Arthur said the Navy would like to have all of the new authorities and would use most of them immediately. The Army, said Kiley, would use the $200,000 to $400,000 accession bonuses 'carefully and judiciously.'"
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,104359,00.html
"Difficulties in recruiting the next generation of Army and Navy physicians and dentists have spurred the Senate to approve new authorities to increase dramatically medical bonuses and stipends."
"...the Senate package would:
-- Double, to $30,000 a year, the stipend for HPSP scholarships.
-- Increase to $60,000, from $22,000, maximum student loan repayment to entice more medical and dental school graduates into service.
-- Increase to $45,000, from $15,000, maximum annual grants allowed under the Financial Assistance Program for doctors who choose to complete residency training in the civilian sector before military service.
-- Increase to $25,000, from $10,000, the size of special pay offered to Selected Reserve health professionals trained in critically short wartime specialties. Some who might qualify include emergency room physicians, surgeons, urologists, ophthalmologists and dermatologists. This is the only initiative in the Senate packet that the Bush administration sought.
-- Enhance dental accession bonus authority. Dentists currently are offered an accession bonus of up to $30,000. That would be raised to $200,000, recognizing that dentist salaries in the private sector have increased with demand for their services in an improving economy.
-- Allow a new accession bonus of up to $400,000 for physicians and dentists in war-critical specialties. Enticed from civilian life, the doctors would promise to serve at least four years. Specialists who might qualify include maxillofacial surgeons, thoracic surgeons and orthopedic surgeons.
Arthur said the Navy would like to have all of the new authorities and would use most of them immediately. The Army, said Kiley, would use the $200,000 to $400,000 accession bonuses 'carefully and judiciously.'"
