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Kool Smiles Houston-Aldine dental clinic in unincorporated Harris County, Texas. Kool Smiles is a dental services provider, based in the United States. Its headquarters are in the Kool Smiles Patient Support Center in Marietta, Georgia, U.S., in Greater Atlanta and has over 100 offices located across sixteen states. [2]
As of July 2012, the company was one of the largest providers of dental services in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and has about 60,000 Medicaid patients. [4] As of September 2012, the company has about 20 clinics in the State of Texas. [8] In August 2013, South Texas Dental bought the company. [9]
In 2010 records from the State of Texas stated that the company collected $9.6 million in Medicaid funds. In 2010 it was the second-largest biller for dental braces under Medicaid in the state. [6] On February 17, 2012, the State of Texas placed a payment hold on the company. [7]
Several state dental associations have attempted to introduce legislation to restrict DSOs from competing within their state. [16] [17] Associations claim that the DSO may exert pressure on dentists to do more work than what is needed, [18] despite studies that show DSO-affiliated dentists actually do less work than the average dentist.
Rural patients and providers alike count on Medicaid to support the health care infrastructure and provide health care services, providing preventive care, dental care and behavioral health ...
Small Smiles originated from a dental office that was opened in 1928 in Pueblo, Colorado. [5] Initially Small Smiles was a family-owned business headed by the Italian American DeRose family of Pueblo and a Denver, Colorado dentist named William Mueller.