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Most states prohibit the corporate practice of medicine but allow for professional medical corporations. The hiring of doctors by hospitals is mostly illegal in California.

Physicians who wish to work in the medical tourism sector need to be careful to separate their medical tasks from their business and marketing tasks and to avoid fee-splitting issues

Jill’s healthcare venture requires her to source a medical doctor (MD) who can collaborate with Jill’s startup to provide a series of innovative healthcare therapies to users

An RN who is working on getting her NP recently called our law firm, asking whether he was engaging in illegal “fee-splitting” in her compensation arrangement with a physician. Physician [...]

Do retrospective physician bonuses violate anti-kickback laws? Well they are problematic.

Are online call centers illegally practicing medicine or engaging in kickbacks and fee-splitting?

When Chiropractors work with Medical Doctors, fee-splitting issues arise. This is like Harry met Sally without the New Year's scene.

Healthcare bonuses raise fee-splitting and anti-kickback issues; is there a workaround?

A physician called our law firm, complaining that the management company had "embezzled" funds from the account for the medical doctor's clinic. What should he do?

The Supreme Court case of North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC is, in some ways, a watershed in terms of judicial resistance to monopolization of health care practices by a licensing board.

If you're a medical doctor, dentist, acupuncturist, chiropractor, or other licensed healthcare provider, and you offer your patients "9 sessions, get 1 free," have you violated kickback laws?

"I provide medical (or acupuncture, chiropractic, osteopathic, massage) services on an hourly basis and get paid a percentage of revenues in return.” Is that fee-splitting?

If you think Obamacare is the most important story in regulation of healthcare, you're missing these key trends that will shape the medicine of 2015 and beyond. Remember that technological [...]

Many online ventures want to know whether Stark, anti-kickback, and fee-splitting laws are violated by business arrangements that offer online coupons or Web-based coupons to customers. Let's [...]

ON Therapeutics, a consulting firm focused on integrative medicine branding, marketing and strategy, featured Fee-Splitting 101 and related articles on legal and regulatory issues. FON is [...]

Many physicians, chiropractors, acupuncturists, and other healthcare practitioners want to know whether they are fee-splitting when they rent a room hourly from a medical practice or other [...]

There's an old quote that says: "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!" And what if your friendly neighborhood chiropractor asks you to be Medical Director, especially in California? [...]

Entrepreneurs who fail to properly take into account legal and regulatory issues before opening a longevity and anti-aging medical clinic or health education (or telehealth / telemedicine) [...]