{"data":{"id":"us-ca/bpc-2284","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"BPC § 2284","heading":"","body":"(a) A licensed physician and surgeon or a licensed podiatrist, or a group of physicians and surgeons or podiatrists, or a medical or podiatry corporation shall not share in any fee charged by an acupuncturist or receive any consideration from or on behalf of such acupuncturist for any referral or diagnosis.\n(b) A licensed physician and surgeon or podiatrist shall not employ more than one acupuncturist.\n(c) A group of physicians and surgeons or podiatrists, or a medical or podiatry corporation, shall not employ more than one acupuncturist for every 20 practitioners in such group or corporation.","path":["Business and Professions Code - BPC","DIVISION 2. HEALING ARTS [500. - 4999.202.]","CHAPTER 5. Medicine [2000. - 2529.8.1.]","ARTICLE 12. Enforcement [2220. - 2319.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"2751b0b3f7e66498a65296ee63cc3beff9cbd666f1c709d89be6d531cc104db1","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/bpc-2283","next":"us-ca/bpc-2285"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}