What are the license fees to open a med spa in Colorado?
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No set figure — Colorado's Medical Practice Act creates no med spa facility license, registration or permit fee, and the license fees the state does charge are re-set each budget year to approximate the regulator's costs.
⚠️ Colorado fixes no fee amount in statute — its fees float to cover the regulator’s costs. Section 12-20-105 applies “to all activities of the division and all regulators”, and the mechanism is annual: “The director shall propose, as part of the division’s annual budget request, an adjustment in the amount of each fee that each regulator is authorized by law to collect”, and then “each regulator shall adjust the fees the regulator is authorized by law to collect so that the revenue generated from the fees approximates its direct and indirect costs.” A Colorado operator therefore has no statutory figure to plan against, and the number can move every budget year.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12-20-105(1), (2)(a), (2)(b)(I) · verified Sep 2, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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⚠️ who may compound or dispense at all, which is the first gate on a compounded glp-1. “only a registered prescription drug outlet or other outlet registered pursuant to section 12-280-119 (1)(d) may compound or dispense a prescription.” a med spa is not a prescription drug outlet, so the default position is that it may do neither.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12-280-120(4) · verified Sep 2, 2026
⚠️ and the exception that matters is personal. “a practitioner may personally compound and dispense for any patient under the practitioner’s care any drug that the practitioner is authorized to prescribe and that the practitioner deems desirable or necessary in the treatment of any condition being treated by the practitioner, and the practitioner is exempt from all provisions of this article 280 except section 12-280-129.” Two words carry the weight: PERSONALLY, and under the practitioner’s care. This is not a route for staff to compound, nor for stock held against future demand.
Colo. Rev. Stat. § 12-280-120(6)(a) · verified Sep 2, 2026
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