fee splitting

1. 1.

   payment (usually by doctors or lawyers) of part of the fee in return for the referral

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Questions about fee splitting

What does fee splitting mean?

fee splitting means "payment (usually by doctors or lawyers) of part of the fee in return for the referral".

Is fee splitting a common word?

fee splitting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.