Can a non-physician own a med spa in Nevada?
Ownership · part of The Practice Perimeter
Short answer
The cited rules do not settle this — a professional corporation or PLLC may issue owner's interest only to natural persons licensed in its own professional service, but nothing cited says a med spa must take that form or which service it renders.
Nevada restricts ownership of a professional entity to natural persons licensed to render the very services the entity was formed to provide, and extends the restriction to voting agreements and transfers so that control cannot be separated from licensure. It reaches CONTROL as well as ownership: an officer, director or manager must themselves be licensed to render those services, and a professional entity that fails to require compliance with those officer, director and manager duties is subject to forfeiture of its charter. The Medical Practice Act adds the money rules: directly or indirectly receiving from any person, corporation or other business organization any fee, commission, rebate or other form of compensation intended or tending to influence the physician’s objective evaluation or treatment of a patient is a ground for discipline or denial of licensure, and so is dividing a fee between licensees except where the patient is informed of the division and it is made in proportion to the services personally performed and the responsibility assumed by each licensee.
Drawn from 8 verified rules in this section · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
- Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.070(1)(a) · Sep 3, 2026
- Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.070(1)(b) · Sep 3, 2026
- Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.070(1)(c) · Sep 3, 2026
- Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.080(2) · Sep 3, 2026
- Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.080(4) · Sep 3, 2026
- Nev. Rev. Stat. §630.305(1)(a) · Sep 7, 2026
- Nev. Rev. Stat. §630.305(1)(b) · Sep 7, 2026
- Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.050(1); §89.020(8) · Sep 8, 2026
Related Nevada rules
No professional entity may issue any of its owner’s interest to anyone other than a natural person who is licensed to render the same specific professional services as those for which the professional entity was formed.
Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.070(1)(a) · verified Sep 3, 2026
No owner may enter into a voting trust agreement or any other type of agreement vesting another person with the authority to exercise the voting power of any or all of his or her owner’s interest, unless the other person is licensed to render the same specific professional services as those for which the professional entity was formed.
Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.070(1)(b) · verified Sep 3, 2026
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