Does MedSpaRadar replace an AmSpa membership?

No. They answer different questions. An AmSpa membership is a trade association — events, training, a peer community, vendor rates, and a state legal summary, at $395/year for Basic and $845/year for Plus (their published rates, Aug 2026). MedSpaRadar is a monitoring service: it watches all 50 state legislatures plus the FDA and the Federal Register daily and tells you what changed and what to do. Many practices would reasonably want both. This is regulatory monitoring, not legal advice.

What does an AmSpa membership cost?

As published on their own site and read on Aug 16, 2026: AmSpa Basic is $395/year and AmSpa Plus is $845/year. AmSpa Basic includes a basic state legal summary answering 30+ legal questions, and member rates on events and webinars, and vendor discounts. AmSpa Plus includes a full state legal summary answering 100+ legal questions; treatment delegation tables; a complimentary attorney consultation; the full webinar library and the state of the industry report. Prices change — check their site before deciding.

How much of MedSpaRadar can I read without paying?

The regulatory feed, every state page, the substance tracker, and every statute-cited rule we have published are free and public — currently 2140 cited rules across 51 states, and 118 material changes on record. What is paid is the "what to do" on each change, alerting for your states as soon as we publish, and the printable per-state documents. This is regulatory monitoring, not legal advice.

How do I know MedSpaRadar’s information is current?

Every published change carries its own date and a link to the primary source. Every cited rule carries the exact statute or board rule and the date it was verified. The site publishes a public data-status page showing when each of the 11 monitored sources last produced something, and a state with nothing new says so on its own page rather than leaving an old item under a "latest" heading. Verify anything against the linked primary source.

MedSpaRadar vs an AmSpa membership

These are not competing versions of the same thing. An AmSpa membership is a trade association: events, education, a peer community, and a state legal summary. MedSpaRadar is continuous monitoring: it watches the legislatures, the boards, the FDA and the Federal Register every day and tells you what changed. If you want to be part of the industry, that is a membership. If you want to know the week a rule moves under you, that is monitoring. Plenty of practices want both.

How this page is sourced. Every AmSpa figure below was read from their own public pages on Aug 16, 2026 and is stamped with that date. Where their published pages do not state something, this page says so rather than filling the gap — we do not characterize a competitor’s accuracy or refresh cadence, and prices change, so check their site before deciding.

Side by side

	AmSpa membership	MedSpaRadar
What it is	A trade association for the medical aesthetics industry — events, education, a peer community, vendor rates, and state legal summaries as a membership benefit.	A regulatory monitoring service. We poll 11 sources daily — all 50 state legislatures, the FDA, and the Federal Register — and publish what changed, in plain language, linked to the primary source.
Published price	AmSpa Basic $395/year · AmSpa Plus $845/yeartheir published rates, as of Aug 2026	Weekly Brief free · Solo-State $39/mo · All-Access $99/mo founding for the first 50 practices (then $149) · one-time state Snapshot $49, credited toward a subscription within 30 days.
What the legal content covers	AmSpa Basic: A basic state legal summary answering 30+ legal questions. AmSpa Plus: A full state legal summary answering 100+ legal questions, plus treatment delegation tables.as described on their site, Aug 2026	Primary-source-cited rules organized by the seven decisions of The Practice Perimeter — 2140 cited rules across 51 states today (most recent verification Sep 28, 2026). Every rule names its statute or board rule and links to it.
How many states	Not stated on their public pages — we don’t characterize what we can’t verify.	Monitoring covers all 50 state legislatures plus the FDA and Federal Register. Statute-cited rules exist for 51 states (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming); 25 states have a tracked change on record. Everywhere else, the page says so.
When it tells you something changed	Not stated on their public pages — we don’t characterize what we can’t verify.	Sources are scanned daily, and anything that can email you is human-reviewed before it goes out. Free tier: a weekly Brief. Members: alerted as soon as we publish, for their states, with the specific step to take.
What you can read before paying	The legal summaries are a membership benefit.	The feed, all 51 state pages, the substance tracker and every cited rule are public. The “what to do” on each change, as-published alerts, and the printable documents are paid.
What it is not	Not a law firm and not your counsel — membership is not a lawyer-client relationship.	Not a law firm, not legal advice, and not practice-management software. We tell you what changed and link you to the source; your counsel tells you what it means for your facts.

When a membership is the better buy

Straightforwardly, and from their own published list of what a membership includes:

You want the events, the training, and the room full of other operators. Monitoring software cannot give you a conference, a bootcamp, or a peer network, and those are real reasons people join.
You want a conversation with a lawyer. AmSpa Plus includes a complimentary attorney consultation; MedSpaRadar has no attorneys and will never give you legal advice — it links you to the statute and stops there.
You want one document that walks the whole legal landscape of your state end to end, today, rather than the changes as they happen.
You buy from the industry vendors and would use the member rates and the industry report.

What a membership is not built to do is tell you, this week, that the rule you staffed around last year has changed. That is the job MedSpaRadar exists for, and it is why the two sit together more naturally than they compete.

Questions people ask

Does MedSpaRadar replace an AmSpa membership?: No. They answer different questions. An AmSpa membership is a trade association — events, training, a peer community, vendor rates, and a state legal summary, at $395/year for Basic and $845/year for Plus (their published rates, Aug 2026). MedSpaRadar is a monitoring service: it watches all 50 state legislatures plus the FDA and the Federal Register daily and tells you what changed and what to do. Many practices would reasonably want both. This is regulatory monitoring, not legal advice.
What does an AmSpa membership cost?: As published on their own site and read on Aug 16, 2026: AmSpa Basic is $395/year and AmSpa Plus is $845/year. AmSpa Basic includes a basic state legal summary answering 30+ legal questions, and member rates on events and webinars, and vendor discounts. AmSpa Plus includes a full state legal summary answering 100+ legal questions; treatment delegation tables; a complimentary attorney consultation; the full webinar library and the state of the industry report. Prices change — check their site before deciding.
How much of MedSpaRadar can I read without paying?: The regulatory feed, every state page, the substance tracker, and every statute-cited rule we have published are free and public — currently 2140 cited rules across 51 states, and 118 material changes on record. What is paid is the "what to do" on each change, alerting for your states as soon as we publish, and the printable per-state documents. This is regulatory monitoring, not legal advice.
How do I know MedSpaRadar’s information is current?: Every published change carries its own date and a link to the primary source. Every cited rule carries the exact statute or board rule and the date it was verified. The site publishes a public data-status page showing when each of the 11 monitored sources last produced something, and a state with nothing new says so on its own page rather than leaving an old item under a "latest" heading. Verify anything against the linked primary source.

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The fastest way to judge this is to read what we publish for the state you practice in — it is free, it is dated, and every rule links to the statute it came from.

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MedSpaRadar is regulatory monitoring and reference: it summarizes public laws, regulations and agency actions and links each to its source. It is not legal, medical, or compliance advice, and using it creates no attorney-client relationship. A summary can lag its source or leave out detail, and monitoring itself can be interrupted — so an absence of alerts means nothing reached you, not that nothing happened. Read the cited source, check its effective date, and confirm any change to your operations or clinical practice with qualified health-law counsel and your medical director. AmSpa is an independent organization and is not affiliated with MedSpaRadar; the figures above are their published rates as of Aug 16, 2026 and may have changed. Legislative data via LegiScan (CC BY 4.0).