Michigan good-faith exam for med spas
Requirements for the good-faith examination before treatment. Below are the Michigan rules that govern it, each linked to its primary source. Monitoring and reference, not legal advice.
Good-faith examination in Michigan
⚠️ MICHIGAN SPLITS BY DRUG SCHEDULE, NOT BY PROCEDURE. PART 161 of the Public Health Code was surveyed via its section index and imposes no pre-treatment examination requirement for cosmetic injectables. But § 333.7303a(2) bars prescribing any SCHEDULE 2 TO 5 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE outside a BONA FIDE PRESCRIBER-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP, with a follow-up care duty attached. Testosterone is Schedule III, so a hormone-therapy practice is inside that rule.
⚠️ NO EXAMINATION RULE FOR COSMETIC INJECTABLES. Part 161 of the Public Health Code was surveyed via the section index and imposes no pre-treatment or “good faith” examination requirement for botulinum toxin or fillers. ⚠️ READ THAT STRICTLY — it is about NON-CONTROLLED cosmetic drugs. Controlled substances are governed separately by § 333.7303a(2) below, and testosterone is Schedule III.
Mich. Comp. Laws pt. 161 — section index (surveyed in full) · verified Sep 2, 2026 · read at Internet Archive snapshot — evidence of a page, not the current rule
⚠️ AND THE CONTROLLED-SUBSTANCE RULE IS A RELATIONSHIP TEST WITH A FOLLOW-UP DUTY. “A LICENSED PRESCRIBER SHALL NOT PRESCRIBE A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE LISTED IN SCHEDULES 2 TO 5 UNLESS THE PRESCRIBER IS IN A BONA FIDE PRESCRIBER-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PATIENT for whom the controlled substance is being prescribed”, and the prescriber “SHALL PROVIDE FOLLOW-UP CARE TO THE PATIENT TO MONITOR THE EFFICACY” of the treatment — or refer the patient to their primary care provider, or to another geographically accessible prescriber, if unable to.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.7303a(2) · verified Sep 2, 2026 · read at Internet Archive snapshot — evidence of a page, not the current rule
Where care is delivered remotely Michigan does impose a consent duty by statute rather than leaving it to the standard of care, and it sits in the same article as the delegation rule — which is where a reader looking for a pre-treatment requirement would find it if one existed. (Complete through PA 38 of 2025.)
Mich. Comp. Laws § 333.16284 · verified Sep 2, 2026 · read at Internet Archive snapshot — evidence of a page, not the current rule
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