2025 Delaware Code
Title 6 - Commerce and Trade
Chapter 25F. Patient Brokering
§ 2502F. Patient brokering prohibited.

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6 DE Code § 2502F (2025)
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§ 2502F. Patient brokering prohibited.

(a) A person may not engage in patient brokering.

(b) A person engages in patient brokering by doing any of the following:

(1) Offering or paying a commission, benefit, bonus, rebate, kickback, or bribe, directly or indirectly, in cash or in kind, or engaging in any form of split-fee arrangement, to induce the referral of a patient or patronage to or from a health-care provider or health-care facility.

(2) Soliciting or receiving a commission, benefit, bonus, rebate, kickback, or bribe, directly or indirectly, in cash or in kind, or engaging in any form of split-fee arrangement, in return for referring a patient or patronage to or from a health-care provider or health-care facility.

(3) Soliciting or receiving a commission, benefit, bonus, rebate, kickback, or bribe, directly or indirectly, in cash or in kind, or engaging in any form of a split-fee arrangement, in return for the acceptance or acknowledgement of treatment from a health-care provider or health-care facility.

(4) Aid, abet, advise, or otherwise participate in the conduct prohibited under this section.

82 Del. Laws, c. 202, § 1; 
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