Corporate Practice of Medicine and Fee-Splitting: Ensuring Compliance With the Prohibitions, Leveraging Exceptions

This CLE course will guide healthcare counsel through the corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting prohibitions. The panel will examine how different states address the challenges presented by the prohibitions. The panel will also offer best practices for navigating the prohibitions to ensure compliance.

Many states prohibit the corporate practice of medicine. The prohibition presents one of the challenges for structuring some healthcare transactions, such as management services arrangements, particularly if the entity has venture capital or private equity investments. Corporate practice of medicine laws prohibit an entity from providing medical services or employing physicians if non-physicians own it.

Another risk is fee-splitting, which many states prohibit to reduce the likelihood that unnecessary medical services will be provided to maximize income. Fee-splitting can occur when a physician splits professional fees with non-clinicians.

Counsel must consider several factors unique to healthcare when structuring different transactions, including the corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting prohibitions, and ensure compliance when structuring agreements.

Listen as our authoritative panel of healthcare attorneys examines the corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting. The panel will examine how different states address the challenges presented by the corporate practice of medicine laws. The panel will address fee-splitting issues and offer best practices for navigating both corporate practice of medicine and fee-splitting to ensure compliance.