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Can a non-physician own a med spa in Hawaii?

Ownership · part of The Practice Perimeter

HAWAII’S LINE ON WHO MAY OWN A MEDICAL PRACTICE IS DRAWN BY THE PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION ACT AND THE LICENSING STATUTES’ UNLICENSED-PRACTICE GROUNDS. The Act defines a professional service as one that may lawfully be rendered only by persons licensed under the named chapters, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy among them, restricts share ownership to qualified persons, organizes professional corporations for a single profession, allows services to be rendered only through licensed individuals, requires not less than one-half of the directors and all officers other than the secretary and treasurer to be qualified persons, and confines the corporation to the profession in its articles. The medical practice act makes employing any person to solicit patients, and knowingly permitting an unlicensed person to perform activities requiring a license, grounds for discipline; the uniform licensing statute reaches aiding an unlicensed person and employing any unlicensed person where licensure is required, and fines a licensee who acts as the agent, partner, or associate of an unlicensed person with intent to evade the licensing laws. None of the sections cited here addresses the division of fees or a percentage arrangement with a non-clinical owner.

Drawn from 9 verified rules in this section · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice

The rest of what Hawaii says on this

Every other rule we have verified under ownership & corporate practice of medicine, each linked to its primary source.

  • "Professional service" means any service that lawfully may be rendered only by persons licensed under chapters 442, 448, 453, 455, 457, 459, 461, 463E, 465, 466, 471, and 605. "Qualified person" means an individual who is eligible under this chapter to own shares issued by a professional corporation.

    Haw. Rev. Stat. § 415A-2 ("Professional service"; "Qualified person") · verified Sep 8, 2026

  • Except as provided in this section, professional corporations may be organized under this chapter only for the purpose of rendering professional services and services ancillary thereto within a single profession.

    Haw. Rev. Stat. § 415A-3(a) · verified Sep 8, 2026

  • A professional corporation may render professional services in this State only through individuals permitted to render such services in this State; but nothing in this chapter shall require any person who is employed by a professional corporation to be licensed to perform services for which no license is otherwise required or prohibit the rendering of professional services by a licensed individual acting in the licensee's individual capacity.

    Haw. Rev. Stat. § 415A-6 · verified Sep 8, 2026

  • Not less than one-half of the directors of a professional corporation and all of the officers, other than the secretary and the treasurer, shall be qualified persons with respect to the corporation. At least one director shall be a resident of this State.

    Haw. Rev. Stat. § 415A-14 · verified Sep 8, 2026

  • A professional corporation shall not engage in any profession or business other than the profession or professions and businesses permitted by its articles of incorporation, except that a professional corporation may invest its funds in real estate, mortgages, stocks, bonds, or any other type of investment.

    Haw. Rev. Stat. § 415A-4 · verified Sep 8, 2026

  • (2) Employing any person to solicit patients for one's self; (6) Procuring a license through fraud, misrepresentation, or deceit, or knowingly permitting an unlicensed person to perform activities requiring a license;

    Haw. Rev. Stat. § 453-8(a)(2), (6) · verified Sep 8, 2026

  • (6) Aiding and abetting an unlicensed person to directly or indirectly perform activities requiring a license; (16) Employing, utilizing, or attempting to employ or utilize at any time any person not licensed under the licensing laws where licensure is required;

    Haw. Rev. Stat. § 436B-19(6), (16) · verified Sep 8, 2026

  • Any licensee aiding or abetting an unlicensed person to directly or indirectly evade this chapter or the applicable licensing laws, or combining or conspiring with an unlicensed person, or permitting one's license to be used by an unlicensed person, or acting as agent, partner, associate, or otherwise, of an unlicensed person with the intent to evade this chapter or the applicable licensing laws may be fined up to $1,000 for the first offense; up to $2,000 or, if applicable, forty per cent of the total contract price, whichever is greater, for the second offense; and up to $5,000 or, if applicable, forty per cent of the total contract price, whichever is greater, for any subsequent offense.

    Haw. Rev. Stat. § 436B-27(a) · verified Sep 8, 2026

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