What limits does Arkansas place on a med spa's business structure?
Ownership · part of The Practice Perimeter
Short answer
The cited rules don't mandate a particular entity. But a Medical Corporation Act corporation must have only licensed physicians as officers, directors and shareholders, and no unlicensed person may own, manage, control it or hold a proxy.
Arkansas is as absolute as this corpus gets, and it reaches the proxy. “All of the officers, directors, and shareholders of a corporation subject to this subchapter shall at all times be persons licensed pursuant to the Arkansas Medical Practices” Act. And then: “No person who is not so licensed shall have any part in the ownership, management, or control of the corporation, nor may any proxy to vote any shares of the corporation be given to a person who is not so licensed.” Ownership, management AND control are named separately, so an arrangement that leaves the shares in licensed hands while moving control elsewhere is reached by the same sentence.
Ark. Code Ann. § 4-29-307 (Medical Corporation Act — officers, directors, and shareholders) · verified Sep 8, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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(3) A licensed physician fails to disclose to a patient that the physician has an ownership interest in a facility or service to which the physician refers the patient that is outside of the physician’s own practice;
17 CAR § 140-2601(3) (Ethical violations for physicians) · verified Sep 4, 2026
(2) "Medical assistant" means an employee of a physician who has been delegated medical practices or tasks and who has not been licensed by or specifically authorized to perform the practice or task pursuant to other provisions of Arkansas law;
17 CAR § 140-2502(2) (definition of “Medical assistant”) · verified Sep 4, 2026
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