Right to Become Participating Dentists — Method of Diagnosis and Treatment Unrestricted — Private Dentist-Patient Relationship

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Insurance
4. Dental Service Plan Law, 1961
5. Right to Become Participating Dentists — Method of Diagnosis and Treatment Unrestricted — Private Dentist-Patient Relationship

1. Every dentist licensed to practice in this state under title 63, chapter 5, has the right to become a participating dentist in the dental service plan corporation operating in the county in which the dentist resides or practices. A dental service plan corporation shall impose no restrictions on the dentists who treat its subscribers as to methods of diagnosis or treatment. The private dentist-patient relationship shall be maintained, and a subscriber shall at all times have free choice of any dentist who is a participating dentist in the corporation and who agrees to accept a particular beneficiary as a patient.
2. Notwithstanding subsection (a), a dental service plan corporation may limit participation in a plan that is providing or managing dental benefits for the impoverished uninsured on behalf of, or as required by, any governmental entity.

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