North Dakota ownership & cpom for med spas

Ownership & corporate practice of medicine in North Dakota

The chapter read does not state a corporate-practice doctrine, but it does regulate the money directly, in the disciplinary grounds. Paying or receiving any fee, commission, rebate or other compensation — directly OR INDIRECTLY — for medical services not actually or personally rendered, or for patient referrals, is a ground for discipline. ⛔ And the same paragraph expressly preserves what it does not reach: the prohibition does not affect the lawful distributions of professional partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies or associations. These claims establish the fee-splitting and referral limits and that professional entities may lawfully distribute. Who may own the entity is answered in a different chapter, which is also cited here: a professional corporation may have as shareholders only individuals licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render the same professional service, together with the nonlicensed employees and minority owners that chapter allows, and may be created only to render one specific type of professional service and services ancillary to it, or two or more kinds of professional service that the licensing laws specifically authorize to be practiced in combination.

• The payment or receipt, directly or indirectly, of any fee, commission, rebate, or other compensation for medical services not actually or personally rendered, or for patient referrals;

  N.D.C.C. § 43-17-31(1)(r) (Fee-splitting, rebates and payment for referrals) · verified Sep 5, 2026

• this prohibition does not affect the lawful distributions of professional partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, or associations.

  N.D.C.C. § 43-17-31(1)(r) (Professional entities are expressly preserved) · verified Sep 5, 2026

• A professional corporation is a corporation incorporated under chapter 10-31 for the purpose of rendering professional service which has as its shareholders only individuals who themselves are licensed or otherwise legally authorized within the state to render the same professional service as the corporation, nonlicensed employees as provided in section 10-31-07.1, and minority owners; and a professional organization may be created under the chapter only for the purpose of rendering one specific type of professional service and services ancillary thereto, or two or more kinds of professional services specifically authorized to be practiced in combination.

  N.D. Cent. Code § 10-31-01(7); § 10-31-04(1) · verified Sep 8, 2026