NMSA 24-1-40. Department of health; New Mexico board of dental health

24-1-40. Department of health; New Mexico board of dental health care; annual report; biennial report. The department of health shall collaborate with the New Mexico board of dental health care and provide to the legislative health and human services committee and the legislative finance committee the following reports: A. by October 1, 2020 and by each October 1 thereafter, a report relating to access to dental health care. The department shall compile for the report at least the following information with analysis and recommendations for legislative action relating to this information: (1) the status of dental health care professional education loan-for-service programming; (2) the feasibility of establishing a program allowing bachelor of arts degree recipients to matriculate directly to dental school for a doctor of dental medicine or doctor of dental surgery degree; (3) the status of the state's medicaid program, including: (a) simplification of administrative procedures regarding the provision of dental health care to medicaid recipients; and (b) changes to reimbursement levels that would encourage dental health care professionals to accept more medicaid recipients as patients; (4) the number of dental health care professionals taking advantage of the rural health care practitioner tax credit; (5) other timely issues as determined by the New Mexico board of dental health care to have an impact on access to or the delivery of dental health care in New Mexico; and (6) the identification of activities in the dental therapist's scope of practice that require dental therapy post-graduate clinical experience; and B. by October 1, 2020 and by October 1 every two years thereafter, a report on the status of the dental therapist licensure program, including the: (1) name and number of educational institutions offering accreditation of a dental therapy educational program; (2) number of students enrolled in each dental therapy educational program, per educational institution; (3) number of licensed dental hygienists enrolled in dental therapy educational programs, per educational institution; (4) number of students who have graduated from dental therapy educational programs; (5) name and number of locations where students are completing dental therapy post-graduate experience; (6) number of graduates practicing under general supervision; (7) practice location for all licensed dental therapists in the state, by county; and (8) number of dental therapists in each county. History: Laws 2019, ch. 107, § 12.