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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="14-402" title_number="14" title_name="Entities That Act as Health Insurers" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Dental Plan Organization Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This subtitle does not apply to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a dentist or professional dental corporation that accepts payment on a fee-for-service basis for providing specific dental services to individual patients for whom the services have been prediagnosed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>an authorized insurer whose activities are authorized and regulated under other provisions of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>a nonprofit health service plan that is subject to Subtitle 1 of this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>a health maintenance organization that is authorized by and subject to Title 19, Subtitle 7 of the Health - General Article; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>a dental plan whose regulation by the State is preempted by federal law.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In addition to the provisions of this subtitle, dental plan organizations are subject to the provisions of Title 2, Subtitle 5 of this article.</text>
  </level>
</section>
