RCW 18.32.534
Dentist health program—Content—License surcharge.
(1) To implement a dentist health program as authorized by RCW 18.130.175, the commission shall enter into a contract with a physician health program or a voluntary substance use disorder monitoring program. The dentist health program may include any or all of the following:
(a) Contracting with providers of treatment programs;
(b) Receiving and evaluating reports of suspected impairment from any source;
(c) Intervening in cases of verified impairment;
(d) Referring impaired dentists to treatment programs;
(e) Monitoring the treatment and rehabilitation of impaired dentists including those ordered by the commission;
(f) Providing education, prevention of impairment, posttreatment monitoring, and support of rehabilitated impaired dentists; and
(g) Performing other related activities as determined by the commission.
(2) A contract entered into under subsection (1) of this section shall be financed by a surcharge of up to fifty dollars per year or equivalent on each license issuance or renewal to be collected by the department of health from every dentist licensed under this chapter. These moneys shall be placed in the health professions account to be used solely for the implementation of the dentist health program.
[ 2022 c 43 § 2; 2013 c 129 § 1; 1999 c 179 § 1; 1994 sp.s. c 9 § 220; 1991 c 3 § 72; 1989 c 125 § 1.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 18 - Businesses and Professions
18.32.005 - Regulation of health care professions—Criteria.
18.32.020 - Practice of dentistry defined.
18.32.030 - Exemptions from chapter.
18.32.0351 - Commission established—Membership.
18.32.0353 - Commission—Removal of member—Order of removal—Vacancy.
18.32.0355 - Commission—Qualifications of members.
18.32.0357 - Commission—Duties and powers—Attorney general to advise, represent.
18.32.0358 - Commission successor to other boards.
18.32.0361 - Compensation of commission members.
18.32.0363 - Examinations—Contracts for administration—Multistate.
18.32.039 - Application of uniform disciplinary act.
18.32.040 - Requirements for licensure.
18.32.050 - Compensation and reimbursement for administering examination.
18.32.160 - Licenses—Who shall sign.
18.32.170 - Duplicate licenses—Fee.
18.32.185 - Inactive license status.
18.32.190 - Licenses display—Notification of address.
18.32.195 - University of Washington dental school faculty and residents—Licenses.
18.32.215 - Licensure without examination—Licensed in another state.
18.32.220 - Certificate available for dentists going out-of-state.
18.32.222 - Commission report—Foreign-trained dentists—Licensure.
18.32.226 - Community-based sealant programs in schools.
18.32.530 - "Unprofessional conduct."
18.32.533 - Unprofessional conduct—Abrogation of copayment provisions.
18.32.534 - Dentist health program—Content—License surcharge.
18.32.640 - Rules—Administration of sedation and general anesthesia.
18.32.655 - Commission—Supervision of records—Rules.
18.32.665 - Advertising—False—Credit terms.
18.32.675 - Practice or solicitation by corporations prohibited—Penalty.
18.32.677 - Interference with licensee's independent clinical judgment.
18.32.683 - Patient abandonment.
18.32.685 - Prescriptions—Filled by druggists.
18.32.695 - Identification of new dental prostheses.
18.32.705 - Identification of previously fabricated prostheses.
18.32.715 - Identification of dental prostheses—Violation.
18.32.725 - Sanitary regulations.
18.32.735 - Unlawful practice—Hygienists—Penalty.
18.32.745 - Unlawful practice—Employing unlicensed dentist—Penalty.
18.32.755 - Advertising—Names used—Penalty.
18.32.765 - Pilot project—Commission—Authority over budget.
18.32.775 - Disciplinary proceedings—Cost and fee recovery.
18.32.785 - Pain management rules—Criteria for new rules.