Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R434 - Clinical Services, Primary Care and Rural Health
Rule R434-100 - Physician Visa Waivers
Section R434-100-7 - Application Deferral

Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 434-100-7

Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024

(1) The Department may defer processing of a request if the health care facility or any of its principals is under investigation or awaiting trial for possible:

(a) Medicaid or Medicare fraud;

(b) violations of Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing statute or rules; or

(c) other violations of law that may indicate that it may not be in the public interest that a waiver of the two -year home residency requirement be granted.

(2) The Department may defer processing of a request if the health care facility or any of its principals is under probation or has entered a plea in abeyance for any alleged violation of the elements listed in Subsection (1).

(3) A physician applicant may seek to obtain a J-1 visa waiver as an employee of another health care facility if the Department has deferred processing of a request under Subsections (1) or (2).

(4) If a health care facility for which a request has been deferred desires the Department to remove the deferral, it must notify the Department and provide documentation that the reason for the deferral no longer exists.

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