2014 Virginia Code
Title 54.1 - Professions and Occupations
§ 54.1-2962. Division of fees between physicians and surgeons prohibited

No surgeon or physician shall directly or indirectly share any fee charged for a surgical operation or medical services with a physician who brings, sends or recommends a patient to such surgeon for operation, or such physician for such medical services; and no physician who brings, sends, or recommends any patient to a surgeon for a surgical operation or medical services shall accept from such surgeon or physician any portion of a fee charged for such operation or medical services. This chapter shall not be construed as prohibiting the members of any regularly organized partnership of such surgeons or physicians from making any division of their total fees among themselves as they may determine or a group of duly licensed practitioners of any branch or branches of the healing arts from using their joint fees to defray their joint operating costs. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Code 1950, § 54-278; 1956, c. 389; 1988, c. 765.