Session of 1999
HOUSE BILL No. 2586
By SRS Transition Oversight Committee
11-19-99
9 AN ACT
relating to the dental practices act; concerning services for
in-
10 digent persons;
amending K.S.A. 65-1466 1999 Supp. and repealing
11 the existing
section.
12
13 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas:
14 Section
1. K.S.A. 1999 Supp. 65-1466 is hereby amended to read as
15 follows: 65-1466. (a) Notwithstanding any
other provision of the dental
16 practices act, a not-for-profit corporation
having the status of an organi-
17 zation under 26 United States Code
Annotated 501(c)(3) which is also a
18 facility qualified under subsection (b) of
K.S.A. 65-431 and amendments
19 thereto to select and employ professional
personnel, an indigent health
20 care clinic as defined by the rules and
regulations of the secretary of
21 health and environment, a federally
qualified health center, or a local
22 health department may employ or otherwise
contract with a person li-
23 censed under the dental practices act to
provide dental services to dentally
24 indigent persons.
25
(b) Dentally indigent persons are those persons who
are: (1) Deter-
26 mined to be a member of a family
unit earning at or below 200% of
27 poverty income guidelines based on
the annual update of "poverty income
28 guidelines" published in the
federal register by the United States de-
29 partment of health and human
services and are not indemnified against
30 costs arising from medical and
hospital care or dental care by a policy of
31 accident and sickness insurance or
an employee health benefits plan; or
32 (2) eligible for medicaid; or (3)
qualified for Indian health services. This
33 subsection shall not be construed
to prohibit an entity under subsection
34 (a) which enters into an
arrangement with a licensee under the dental
35 practices act for purposes of
providing services to dentally indigent per-
36 sons pursuant to subsection (a)
from defining "dentally indigent persons"
37 more restrictively than such term
is defined under this subsection.
38 (c)
(b) A licensee under the dental practices act who
enters into an
39 arrangement with an entity under subsection
(a) to provide dental services
40 pursuant to subsection (a): (1) Shall not
be subject to having the licensee's
41 license certificate suspended or revoked by
the board solely as a result of
42 such arrangement; and (2) may not permit
another person who is not
43 licensed in Kansas as a dentist, and is not
otherwise competent, to engage
2
1 in the clinical practice of
dentistry. No entity under subsection (a) or any
2 other person may direct or interfere
or attempt to direct or interfere with
3 a licensed dentist's professional
judgment and competent practice of
4 dentistry.
5
(d) (c) A dentist who is classified as
"retired" by the Kansas dental
6 board is not required to pay the
annual renewal fee or comply with the
7 dental continuing education
requirements if the dentist elects to provide
8 dental services to the indigent
through one of the entities specified in
9 subsection (a). A "retired" dentist
providing such services shall be re-
10 quired to comply with the annual renewal
requirements of the Kansas
11 dental board.
12 (e) The
Kansas dental board may adopt rules and regulations as
nec-
13 essary to carry out the provisions
of this section.
14 (f)
(d) This section shall be part of and supplemental to
the dental
15 practices act.
16 Sec. 2. K.S.A. 1999 Supp.
65-1466 is hereby repealed.
17 Sec. 3. This act shall
take effect and be in force from and after its
18 publication in the statute book.