Topic
Fee Splitting
51 published works
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Major California Attorney General Opinions Involving Business & Professions Code Section 650
Is it kickback? A fee-split? (One client kept referring to this as "flea-spitting." Sorry, it's fee splitting.) Sometimes, in addition to reviewing statutes and cases, it's helpful to review opinions by the state…
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California Prohibits Kickbacks and Fee-Splitting
California law prohibits fee-splitting and kickbacks, but it does allow payments based on fair market value that are not tied to patient volume. The key is "B&P 650." California Business &…
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Disclaimer as to Uncertain Nature of Law
Here is the "disclaimer as to uncertain nature of law" for legal memos involving anti-kickback, fee-splitting and self-referral. The disclaimer incorporates language from a regulatory agency, because this language mirrors…
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Do percentage-based, revenue-sharing arrangements between a clinic and its health care practitioners violate Stark, antikickback and fee-splitting laws?
Many medical spas, health care clinics, integrative medicine facilities, and wellness facilities are asking whether sharing revenues with practitioners violates the law and puts them in legal jeopardy. The answer…
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Mini-Stark statute addresses self-referral legal issues
New York has its own "mini-Stark" law addressing referrals to health care entities in which the referring practitioner has an ownership or other financial interest. Section 238-a of NYS Public…
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Fee Splitting and Kickbacks continue to challenge physicians
Fee-splitting and kickback issues pose challenge for medical clinics and wellness centers that include non-physician providers such as nurses, psychologists, chiropractors, acupuncturists and massage therapists. There is a lot of…
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Corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting, and other legal issues in the aesthetic medical practice and medspa
If you're opening a medical spa or an aesthetic medical practice, watch out for lurking legal issues. Corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting, anti-kickback and other legal rules can ruin your…
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Drafting legal contracts for medical spa and integrative medicine clinics to address kickback and fee-splitting issues
Many business owners think that handling Stark, kickback and fee-splitting issues in the medspa or integrative care clinic is simply a matter of drafting standard contracts for independent contractors or…
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Clinics address Stark, fee-splitting and anti-kickback legal issues
Multi-disciplinary health care clinics and medical spas need to address legal concerns surrounding Stark, kickback, and fee-splitting issues. One of the most confusing arenas surround Stark is the series of…
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Dangers Of Expedience
An attorney found to have violated 24 ethics rules stemming from his partnership with a non-lawyer that engaged in the practice of law and fee-splitting with his partner was suspended…