Question:
Is is legal to open a dental clinic if we are not dentists in
Texas? We have a business registered under corporation.
Answer:
Howard Farran (AZ) pays 25% commission but he pays the lab bill.
Others pay say 33% but the dentist and IC independent
contractor/employee split the lab bill.
Rick Workman of Heartland fame pays 25%. He has 130 dental offices.
If you are asking these questions, step one is a plan to figure out
how to get patients, etc. That's the challenge, not the amount of the
split.
In New York that's true. Its a good rule, but easily circumventable.
Who "owns" anything is always fudgie.
I believe that you must have a licensed dentist on the board of directors if
it's a corporation.
In Kansas, corporation or sole proprietorship, you must be a dentist. IIRC
it is not easy to get around - no one has so far.
In KS (assuming you registered the corporation through Kansas) a C corp can
be PC or PA. The corporate entity really doesn't matter with reference to a
non-dentist owning a practice in my state. You can't do it today.
A corporation is owned by the shareholders. Everyone else is an employee. If
a person wanted to form a corporation,issue stock, and open a chain of
clinics it wouldn't be reasonable for every board member to be a licensed
dentist. Perhaps a board member might have to be a dentist in your state and
of course there are laws where there must be a licensed dentist on the
premises at the clinic.
