fee splitting
The practice, usually of questionable ethicality, by some professionals, such as…The practice, usually of questionable ethicality, by some professionals, such as medical doctors and lawyers, of sending a client to a second practitioner for an additional consultation in order to obtain another payment from the client or from his or her insurer, and in return for which the original practitioner receives a portion of the payment made to the second practitioner (a "commission" or "piece of the action").
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable, usually)The practice, usually of questionable ethicality, by some professionals, such as medical doctors and lawyers, of sending a client to a second practitioner for an additional consultation in order to obtain another payment from the client or from his or her insurer, and in return for which the original practitioner receives a portion of the payment made to the second practitioner (a "commission" or "piece of the action").
- payment (usually by doctors or lawyers) of part of the fee in return for the referral
Forms
plural: fee splittingsWord family
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable