What are the license fees to open a med spa in Arizona?
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Short answer
The cited rules do not settle total cost — they cap only licensing fees: $250 establishment license application (also for change of ownership), $100 establishment renewal, $100 initial personal license, and $150 after a change of location.
💰 Arizona publishes one schedule and it is all ceilings: “the board shall establish and collect fees not to exceed the following”. For a med spa the operative lines are “application for establishment license, including change of ownership, $250”, “establishment license renewal, $100” and “application for initial personal license, a onetime fee of $100”, with the personal renewal “$100 TO BE PAID ONCE EVERY TWO YEARS”. Note the two traps priced into the list: a change of ownership costs the full $250, and moving the business is its own charge — “establishment license after a change of location, $150”.
Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 32-507(A)(1), (3), (6), (8), (9) · verified Sep 2, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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⚠️ compounding is a pharmacist act by definition in Arizona — and the definition expressly covers office stock. “Compounding” means preparing, mixing, assembling, packaging or labeling a drug “by a pharmacist or an intern or pharmacy technician under the pharmacist’s supervision, for the purpose of dispensing to a patient based on a valid prescription order”, and it INCLUDES preparing drugs “for administration by a medical practitioner to the medical practitioner’s patient and not for sale or dispensing”. Office stock to ADMINISTER is contemplated; office stock to SELL is not.
Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 32-1901 (“compounding”) · verified Sep 2, 2026
⚠️ and two exclusions decide the glp-1 case. “compounding does not include preparing commercially available products from bulk compounds or preparing drugs for sale to pharmacies, practitioners or entities for the purpose of dispensing or distribution.” Making a commercially available drug from bulk powder is outside what Arizona calls compounding at all — and so is preparing product for sale onward to a practice that means to dispense it.
Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 32-1901 (“compounding”) · verified Sep 2, 2026
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