2019 California Code
Health and Safety Code - HSC
DIVISION 2 - LICENSING PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 2.2 - Health Care Service Plans
ARTICLE 5 - Standards
Section 1373.13.

1373.13.  

(a)  It is the intent of the Legislature that all persons licensed in this state to engage in the practice of dentistry shall be accorded equal professional status and privileges, without regard to the degree earned.

(b)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no health care service plan shall discriminate, with respect to the provision of, or contracts for, professional services, against a licensed dentist solely on the basis of the educational degree held by the dentist.

(Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 729, Sec. 2.)

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