# Management services organization (MSO)

**Management services organization (MSO):** A management services organization (MSO) is an entity that supplies administrative and business services to a professional practice under contract, without owning or directing its clinical practice.

A management services organization (MSO) is an entity that supplies administrative and business services to a professional practice under contract, without owning or directing its clinical practice.

In dentistry an MSO is often the business-services arm of a DSO, paired with a dentist-owned practice entity through a management services agreement.

Source: DDSIntel glossary, https://ddsintel.com/glossary/mso

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