MI HB6010

Expands the essential health provider repayment program to include professionals with public health graduate degrees (Master of Public Health or Master of Science in Public Health) seeking to become medical directors of local health departments.

Adds "public health graduate degree program" as a new defined term and clarifies that designated professionals can pursue debt repayment for loans taken to attend such programs.

Updates Medicaid definition to reference USC 1396w-8 instead of 1396w-6 to reflect current federal statute citations.

Adds "preventive medicine or public health" as a designated physician specialty area eligible for recruitment and preference in the repayment program.

Makes technical corrections to replace gendered pronouns with "designated professional" and clarifies references to section 2711(1) for physician specialty area definitions.