In Delaware, may a non-clinical owner or manager be paid a share of revenue?
Ownership · part of The Practice Perimeter
Short answer
The cited rules do not settle this — Delaware's fee-splitting rule only bars a physician paying a referring physician a fee out of proportion to work actually performed, and nothing cited addresses paying a non-clinical owner or manager a revenue share.
Delaware’s fee-splitting rule sits among the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline’s enumerated unprofessional conduct: 8.1.9 Payment of a fee by a physician to another physician who has referred the patient to him, unless the fee is in proportion to work actually performed by the referring physician.
24 Del. Admin. Code § 1700-8.1.9 (Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline — unprofessional conduct: payment of a fee to a referring physician) · verified Sep 7, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related Delaware rules
The term "professional corporation" means a corporation which is organized and incorporated, under this chapter, for the sole and specific purpose of rendering a single professional service or qualified related professional services, and which has as its shareholders only individuals who themselves are duly licensed or otherwise legally authorized within this State to render the same professional service, or those component qualified related professional services, as the corporation.
8 Del. C. §603(2) · verified Sep 3, 2026
The term "qualified related professional services" means, and is limited to, any combination of the practice of medicine by doctors of medicine or doctors of osteopathy or both, and the practice of podiatry by doctors of podiatric medicine.
8 Del. C. §603(3) · verified Sep 3, 2026
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