Can a non-physician own a med spa? Healthcare attorney Keith Lefkowitz explains.
A non-physician cannot own a Med spa in Texas because Texas has a corporate practice of Medicine Doctrine which generally prohibits a non-physician and businesses owned by non-physicians from providing medical services. When a business owned by non-physicians, employee, physician or contractor the physician to provide medical services and the business collects the fee, it is engaged in the unlawful acts of medicine. However, there are other avenues for an opposition to be involved in the medical industry. Through an MSO and non-physician can provide a number of services. They provide the HR, the billing, the marketing. They really develop the brand, the image of the business itself and they license that brand to the physician practice. So, in a way they truly own the business side of the medical spa while the physician provides the professional services through their medical practice.
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Hendershot Cowart P.C.
