What limits does Illinois place on a med spa's business structure?
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⚠️ the second exception is the entity route, and its first condition is the corporate-practice rule. Nothing prohibits practicing “through or within any form of legal entity authorized to conduct business in this State” or “pooling, sharing, dividing, or apportioning the professional fees and other revenues in accordance with the agreements and policies of the entity” — PROVIDED “(1) each owner of the entity is licensed under this act”, (2) it is organized under the Medical Corporation Act, Professional Services Corporation Act, Professional Association Act or Limited Liability Company Act, and (3) it is allowed by Illinois law to provide physician services. Revenue sharing inside a wholly licensee-owned entity is fine; outside one it is not.
225 ILCS 60/22.2(c) · verified Sep 2, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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Only physicians may organize under the Medical Corporation Act. Physicians may instead use the Professional Service Corporation Act or the Professional Limited Liability Company Act; APRNs may use only those latter two. A physician entity may have only physicians as shareholders or members, officers, directors or managers, and an APRN entity only APRNs.
805 ILCS 15/ · 805 ILCS 10/ · 805 ILCS 185/ (as stated in the IDFPR/IDPH med spa memo) · verified Aug 17, 2026
And a professional limited liability company may not be formed to practice medicine at all unless every manager is licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 and every member is a physician, a registered medical corporation, a professional service corporation of licensed physicians, a hospital or hospital affiliate, or a professional limited liability company that itself meets one of those tests. There is no member category in that list that a lay owner fits.
805 ILCS 185/13(a)(2) · verified Sep 1, 2026
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