(1) Two or more health care practitioners legally
organized in an entity recognized by the Commonwealth,
including a partnership, professional corporation, limited
liability company formed to render health care services,
medical foundation, not-for-profit corporation, faculty
practice plan or other similar entity, if any of the
following are satisfied:
(i) Each health care practitioner provides a
substantial amount of the same substantially the full
range of services that each health care practitioner
routinely provides, including, but not limited to,
medical care, consultation, diagnosis or treatment,
through the joint use of shared office space, facilities,
equipment or personnel.
(ii) The entity provides a substantial amount of its
health care practitioners provide a substantial amount of
their services through the entity, services are billed in
the name of the entity and payments are treated as
receipts to of the entity.
(iii) The entity's overhead expenses and the
entity's income are assessed or distributed in accordance
with methods previously determined by members of the
entity.
(2) An entity in which the entity's shareholders,
partners or owners include single-practitioner professional
corporations, limited liability companies formed to render
professional services or other entities in which beneficial
owners are individual health care practitioners.
"Provider." A facility, health care practitioner,
institution or organization, whether for profit or nonprofit,
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