What are the license fees to open a med spa in Iowa?
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Short answer
The cited rules do not settle total cost — they set only barbering/cosmetology fees: $60 per individual license and $60 biennial renewal, plus $80 per establishment license and $80 biennial renewal. No med spa-specific fee is given.
Barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences license fees. All fees are nonrefundable. 507.5(1) License fee for license to practice barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences, license by endorsement, license by reciprocity, or an instructor’s license is $60. 507.5(2) Biennial license renewal fee for each license for each biennium is $60.
Iowa Admin. Code 481—507.5(1)-(2) (Barbering and cosmetology arts and sciences license fees) · verified Sep 8, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related Iowa rules
507.5(11) Establishment license fee is $80. 507.5(12) Biennial license renewal fee for each establishment license for each biennium is $80.
Iowa Admin. Code 481—507.5(11)-(12) (establishment license fee) · verified Sep 8, 2026
Iowa licenses the exact arrangement a med spa uses to hold compounded semaglutide, and names it. Any compounding facility that is registered as an outsourcing facility, as defined in 21 U.S.C. §353b, that distributes sterile compounded human drug products without a patient-specific prescription to an authorized agent or practitioner in this state shall obtain an outsourcing facility license from the board prior to engaging in such distribution. Buying compounded semaglutide as office stock — that is, without a prescription naming the patient — is distribution the supplier must hold an Iowa outsourcing facility license to make.
Iowa Code § 155A.13C(1) (office stock without a patient-specific prescription is a LICENSED activity) · verified Sep 6, 2026
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