17:48C-12 - Participating dentists;  payments for dental services

17:48C-12.  Participating dentists;  payments for dental services
    Any dental service corporation may enter into agreements with eligible dentists whereby such dentists become participating dentists in a plan operated  by the corporation and may make to such dentists such payments as shall have  accrued by reason of services required to be performed under the plan.  No  person shall become a participating dentist unless he shall be a dentist  authorized to practice dentistry under the laws of this State.  Any dental  service corporation may enter into contracts for the payment of dental services  to the subscribers or members of similar nonprofit dental service corporations  of this or any other State, subject to the supervision of the State in which  such similar corporation is located, and shall have the right to make payment  to any other nonprofit dental service corporation, or to any dentists  authorized to practice dentistry in this or any other State for services  rendered to its subscribers and their covered dependents at rates not exceeding  the rates paid participating dentists under the certificate of the subscriber.   The making of any such contract or arrangement, or the rendering of dental  service pursuant thereto, shall not be a violation of any law, rule or  regulation governing the practice of dentistry.

     L.1968, c. 305, s. 12, eff. Sept. 26, 1968.