In Georgia, 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 — they only bar a licensee from dividing fees received for professional services with any person, firm, or corporation for bringing or referring a patient; a revenue share not tied to referrals is not addressed.
⚠️ Georgia puts fee division in the same ground as aiding unlicensed practice, and it names corporations. The board may discipline a licensee who has “divided fees or agreed to divide fees received for professional services with any person, firm, association, corporation, or other entity for bringing or referring a patient.” The trigger is what the payment is FOR — bringing or referring — not who receives it.
O.C.G.A. § 43-34-8(a)(9) · verified Sep 2, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related Georgia rules
The Georgia Professional Corporation Act expressly counts medicine and surgery as a “profession” for its purposes, alongside dentistry, pharmacy, psychology, registered professional nursing and others — so a medical practice organized as a professional corporation falls inside the Act.
O.C.G.A. §14-7-2 · verified Aug 17, 2026 · read at FindLaw Codes
Shares in a professional corporation may only be issued to, held by, or transferred to a person licensed to practice the profession the corporation was organized for who — unless disabled — is actively engaged in that practice as an active practicing member of the corporation. Each stock certificate must be endorsed disclosing that restriction, and shares standing in the name of a disqualified or retired person are void outside the holding periods the Code section allows.
O.C.G.A. §14-7-5(a) · verified Aug 17, 2026 · read at FindLaw Codes
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