Kickbacks

“A state regulatory board spent two years trying to shut down a transparent pharmacy delivery company for alleged kickback violations — and lost. The same legal framework has never been applied to the corporate teleradiology platforms operating identical revenue-sharing arrangements at national scale. The question is not whether the law applies. The question is who has the standing to enforce it.”

“Veterinary fee-splitting and kickbacks are prohibited by the profession’s own ethics code, outlawed by statute in multiple states across three categories of law, and documented as a growing regulatory concern by the legal community. They are also a routine feature of corporate veterinary consolidation. The gap between what the rules say and what the industry does is not a secret. It is a business model.”