Before you begin a loan repayment application, you must be employed at a REAP approved site by the first day of the application cycle.
If your workplace is not on the approved sites list, request your site administrator or owner submit a site application.
Site application
Site applications are accepted year-round.
Eligibility for sites
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Private practice, offering full scope outpatient primary care services, providing care to patients for at least two years prior to application.
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Practice must be located in a rural or frontier county. See County Designations.
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Practice must be located in a federally designated Health Professional Shortage Area.
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Accepting current and new Medicaid, Medicare, CHP+ and offering a slide fee scale based on family size and annual income for those at or below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level.
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Practice level proportion of Medicaid and SFS must together exceed 10 percent of patients served in the previous 12 months to be eligible for consideration.
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Hours of operation must be conducive to patient and community access to clinic care services.
Required documentation to be submitted with site application
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Current sliding fee scale policy that details how a sliding fee scale will be uniformly applied to all patients who meet family size and income requirements. It must be updated every year according to current Federal Poverty Guidelines.
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Sliding fee scale patient application.
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Non-discrimination statement.
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Photo of signage posted in the clinic indicating the clinic:
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Serves all patients regardless of ability to pay.
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Offers discounted fees for patients.
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Does not deny services based on a person's race, color, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or national origin.
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Accepts insurance, including Medicaid, Medicare, Children's Health Insurance program and other programs accessible in Colorado, such as the Colorado Indigent Care Program.
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Apply for REAP loan repayment - The REAP application is open from March 1, 2023 to March 31, 2023.
Direct clinical care
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A medically necessary medical, dental, mental or behavioral health visit or a qualified preventive health visit is direct clinical care. The visit must be a face-to-face/one-on-one encounter between the patient and clinician during which time one or more services are rendered.
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Care rendered via telemedicine is not currently eligible to achieve the hours of direct care minimums.
Eligible health professions
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Doctors of osteopathic or allopathic medicine (family medicine, geriatrics, general internal medicine, general psychiatry, general child psychiatry, general pediatrics, and general obstetrics and gynecology).
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Clinical pharmacists (PharmD).
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Licensed clinical or counseling psychologists (Ph.D., Psy.D.).
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Licensed clinical social workers (master’s or doctoral degree in social work).
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Licensed professional counselors (master’s or doctoral degree with a major study in counseling).
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Licensed marriage and family therapists (master’s or doctoral degree with a major study in marriage and family therapy).
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Certified nurse-midwives.
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Nurse practitioners.
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Physician assistants.
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Psychiatric nurse specialist
If you are a DDS, DMD or RDH, you may be eligible for the state dental loan repayment program.
Award amounts
Full-time obligation:
$30,000 for physicians.
$15,000 for physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, clinical pharmacists and licensed mental health providers.
Part-time obligation:
$15,000 for physicians.
$7,500 for physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, clinical pharmacists and licensed mental health providers.
Service obligation
You must:
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Agree to work for a term of two years at the approved site.
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Work part time or full time.
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Meet the hourly requirements for direct clinical contact during the entire service obligation.
Additional eligibility details
Qualifying loans, licensure, employment status, competing service obligations.
Contact Kathy Jacobsen at kathy.jacobsen@state.co.us.