Fee Splitting

“The State Medical Board of Ohio…shall, to the extent permitted by law, limit, revoke or suspend a certificate, refuse to register or refuse to reinstate an applicant, or reprimand or place on probation the holder of a certificate for one or more of the following reasons:

(4)        Willfully betraying a professional confidence or engaging in the division of fees for referral of patients, or the receiving of a thing of value in return for a specific referral or a patient to utilize a particular service or business; …

(8)       The obtaining or, or attempting to obtain, money or anything of value by fraudulent misrepresentations in the course of practice; or…

(17)      Any division of fees or charges, or any agreement or arrangement to share fees or charges, made by any person licensed [as a health care practitioner] with any other person so licensed or with any other person.…”  ORC § 4731.22  (B)

Fee Splitting