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Our internal medicine group would like to open a pharmacy downstairs from our practice. Do self-referral laws prohibit doctors from owning a drug store?
Q. Our internal medicine group would like to open a pharmacy downstairs from our practice. Do self-referral laws prohibit doctors from owning a drug store?
A. No, but if you intend to refer patients to the pharmacy, it must be owned by the practice itself, and not by the individual physicians.