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Connecticut ownership & cpom for med spas

Corporate-practice-of-medicine limits on who may own an aesthetic practice. Below are the Connecticut rules that govern it, each linked to its primary source. Monitoring and reference, not legal advice.

Ownership & corporate practice of medicine in Connecticut

Connecticut confines a professional service corporation to rendering the professional service it was incorporated for, permits it to render that service only through licensed officers, employees and agents, and restricts who may hold its stock or its voting power. It also reaches control, though narrowly: persons licensed in ANOTHER JURISDICTION may not be shareholders, directors or officers if they unlawfully practice here or direct or control a Connecticut licensee’s delivery of professional services or exercise of professional judgment.

  • Any person or group of persons licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render the same professional services may organize and become a shareholder or shareholders of a professional corporation for profit under the provisions of chapter 601, for the sole and specific purpose of rendering the same professional service.

    Conn. Gen. Stat. §33-182c(a) (Organization) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • No corporation organized and incorporated under this chapter may render professional services except through its officers, employees and agents who are licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render such professional services within this state; provided this provision shall not be interpreted to include in the term employee clerks, secretaries, bookkeepers, technicians and other assistants who are not usually and ordinarily considered by custom and practice to be rendering professional services to the public for which a license or other legal authorization is required.

    Conn. Gen. Stat. §33-182d (Services to be rendered by licensed persons only) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • No corporation organized under this chapter shall engage in any business other than the rendering of the professional services for which it was specifically incorporated; provided nothing shall be interpreted to prohibit such corporation from investing its funds in real estate, mortgages, stocks, bonds or any other type of investments, or from owning real or personal property incident to the rendering of professional services.

    Conn. Gen. Stat. §33-182f (Limitation on business of corporation) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • No corporation organized under the provisions of this chapter may issue any of its capital stock or permit the transfer of its capital stock on its books to any one other than a person specified in section 33-182c, or the personal representative or estate of a deceased or legally incompetent shareholder. No shareholder shall enter into a voting trust agreement or any other type of agreement vesting another person, other than one specified in section 33-182c, with the authority to exercise the voting power of any or all of his stock.

    Conn. Gen. Stat. §33-182g (Limitation on issuance or transfer of capital stock) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • Persons licensed to render the same professional services in another jurisdiction shall not be shareholders, directors or officers of a professional corporation if such persons unlawfully practice their profession in this state, or direct or control any person licensed to practice such profession in this state concerning the delivery of professional services or the exercise of professional judgment.

    Conn. Gen. Stat. §33-182c(c) · verified Sep 3, 2026

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