1. (a) In this section:

   1. (1) "Dental service agreement" means an agreement between a dental service organization and a dentist under which the dental service organization will:

      1. (A) provide services related to the nonclinical business aspects of a dental practice, including arranging or providing financing, performing billing or payroll tasks, processing patient insurance claims, scheduling or otherwise interacting with patients, and performing other administrative tasks;
      2. (B) supervise or manage the employees or contractors of the dentist; or
      3. (C) employ or otherwise contract with a dentist in the dentist's capacity as a dentist.

   2. (2) "Dental service organization" means an entity that:

      1. (A) is owned wholly or partly by a person who is or is not a dentist; and
      2. (B) under a dental service agreement, provides or offers to provide services to a dentist or employs or otherwise contracts with a dentist in the dentist's capacity as a dentist.

2. (b) The board shall collect the following information from dentists licensed by the board in conjunction with the issuance and renewal of each dental license:

   1. (1) the number and type of dentists employed by the license holder, if any;
   2. (2) the name under which the license holder provides dental services and each location at which those services are provided by that license holder;
   3. (3) whether the license holder is a participating provider under the Medicaid program operated under Chapter 32, Human Resources Code, or the child health plan program operated under Chapter 62, Health and Safety Code;
   4. (4) whether the license holder is employed by or contracts with a dental service organization and, if so, the name and address of the dental service organization;
   5. (5) whether the license holder owns all or part of a dental service organization and, if so, the name and address of the dental service organization and of each dental office at which the dental service organization provides services to patients;
   6. (6) whether the license holder is a party to a dental service agreement and, if so, the name and address of the dental service organization that provides services under the agreement; and
   7. (7) if the license holder owns all or part of a dental service organization, whether that practice is a party to a dental service agreement and, if so, the name and address of the dental service organization that provides services under the agreement.
3. (c) If requested by the board, a dental service organization shall provide to the board the address of the locations where the organization provides dental services in this state and the name of each dentist providing dental services at each location.
4. (d) The board shall provide an option for the electronic submission of the information required under this section.
5. (e) Not later than November 1 of each even-numbered year, the board shall provide a report to the legislature on the information collected under this section and on the board's use of the information in the exercise of the board's statutory authority to regulate the practice of dentistry.

Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 709 (H.B. 3201), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2013.