§ 654 Licensed Professional Referral Restrictions

• •If you have a license to do a certain job (like a doctor or a lawyer), you can't own part of another business that does a similar job if you send people to them.
• •You also can't make deals to share money with them.
• •This rule is to stop people from making money by sending customers to places they own or have deals with.

A doctor who owns a part of a pharmacy and sends patients there to buy medicine.

The doctor is not allowed to own part of the pharmacy if they send patients there. This is to make sure the doctor sends patients to the best place, not just to make money.