In Ohio, may a non-clinical owner or manager be paid a share of revenue?
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Short answer
The cited rules do not settle this — none authorizes non-clinical profit sharing; what they do say is that dividing fees for patient referrals, or taking a thing of value for a specific referral, is a disciplinary ground against the licensee.
⚠️ Ohio makes the division of fees for referral a disciplinary ground, and reaches beyond money. It is grounds for discipline to engage in “the division of fees for referral of patients, or the receiving of a thing of value in return for a specific referral of a patient to utilize a particular service or business”. “a thing of value” and “a particular service or business” together catch reciprocal arrangements that never involve a fee at all.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4731.22(B)(17) · verified Sep 2, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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⚠️ and its one named exception helps nobody in this market. The ground applies “except as authorized in section 4731.31” — which permits “a rural hospital or a health care facility that is owned or operated by a rural hospital” to employ a physician, a rural hospital being one in a county “that has a population of less than one hundred twenty-five thousand”. A cosmetic practice is not inside that door.
Ohio Rev. Code § 4731.31(A)(1), (B) · verified Sep 2, 2026
A person the State Medical Board licenses to practice medicine and surgery, osteopathic medicine and surgery, or podiatric medicine and surgery may render those professional services through a corporation formed under division (B) of section 1701.03, a limited liability company, a partnership, or a professional association formed under Chapter 1785.
Ohio Rev. Code §4731.226(A)(1) · verified Aug 17, 2026
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