In Oklahoma, 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 contain no fee-splitting rule, but they do bar anyone not licensed in the profession from being a manager or shareholder of a professional entity, so a non-clinical person cannot hold that ownership role at all.
The obtaining of any fee or offering to accept any fee, present or other form of remuneration whatsoever, on the assurance or promise that a manifestly incurable disease can or will be cured;
Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 509 (Fees promised on a cure — both 2019 versions) · verified Sep 5, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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may employ one or more persons who are duly licensed to practice medicine in this state without being regarded as itself practicing medicine within the meaning and provisions of this section.
Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 492 (An entity providing medical care may employ physicians) · verified Sep 5, 2026
shall not, in and of itself, be considered as an act of unprofessional conduct by the person so employed
Okla. Stat. tit. 59, § 492 (Being employed is not itself unprofessional conduct) · verified Sep 5, 2026
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