Michael H. Cohen: Fee-Splitting Legal

Many clients call me once they have already gotten themselves into an illegal contract for fee splitting. There is both federal and state law to consider. If Medicare is involved, we have to worry about Stark, which is a federal self-referral law, and the federal anti-kickback law. On the state level we have similar self-referral and anti-kickback, and sometimes also patient brokering provisions.

If you are interested in detail about fee splitting and anti-kickback laws, there is a wealth of detail available on the complementary and alternative medicine law blog.