fee splitting (English, noun)
expansion: fee splitting (usually uncountable, plural fee splittings)
Senses:
topics: business
glosses: 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").
tags: uncountable
usually
Forms:
form: fee splittings
tags: plural
form: fee-splitting
tags: alternative