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Does a med spa have to register or hold a license in Minnesota?

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No — the Medical Practice Act sets no med spa facility license, registration or medical director requirement; it licenses the person doing the act. But the cosmetology/esthetics side of a spa still needs a salon license ($350 initial, $225 renewal).

⚠️ CHAPTER 147 creates no med spa license, registration or facility permit, and names no medical director — the chapter was surveyed in full. The MEDICAL board therefore licenses the person performing the act, not the premises. A separate chapter licenses and prices the COSMETOLOGY salon — $350 for an initial three-year salon license, $225 to renew — and that schedule expressly does not cover the medical side of a med spa.

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Related Minnesota rules

  • ⚠️ there is no med spa registration and no medical director requirement. Chapter 147 was surveyed in full for this entry: it contains no occurrence of “medical director” and no facility license, registration, permit or fee of any kind for a cosmetic practice. Minnesota regulates the PERSON performing the act, never the premises — so there is no register a Minnesota consumer can check, and no filing a Minnesota operator must make.

    Minn. Stat. ch. 147 (surveyed in full via the chapter text) · verified Sep 2, 2026

  • ⚠️ selling a compounded or any other legend drug at a mark-up can require a filing almost nobody makes — BUT ONLY FOR ORAL DRUGS. A practitioner who “dispenses for profit a legend drug that is to be administered orally, is ordinarily dispensed by a pharmacist, and is not a vaccine” MUST FILE a statement with their licensing board, and “it is unlawful to dispense legend drugs for profit … unless the statement has been filed.” “Profit” is any amount above acquisition cost, plus the cost of making it available where the drug was compounded. ⚠️ INJECTABLE semaglutide falls OUTSIDE this filing duty; an ORAL compounded GLP-1 does not.

    Minn. Stat. § 151.37, subd. 2(c) · verified Sep 2, 2026

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