Can a non-physician own a med spa in Nevada?

Ownership · part of The Practice Perimeter

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.

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The rest of what Nevada says on this

Every other rule we have verified under ownership & corporate practice of medicine, each linked to its primary source.

  • 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

  • No owner’s interest may be sold or transferred except to a natural person who is eligible to be an owner or to the personal representative or estate of a deceased or legally incapacitated stockholder. The personal representative or estate of the owner may continue to own the owner’s interest for a reasonable period, but may not participate in any decisions concerning the rendering of professional services.

    Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.070(1)(c) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • Except as otherwise provided in NRS 623.349, a natural person may not be an officer, director or manager of a professional entity formed under this chapter unless the natural person is licensed to render the same specific professional services as those for which the professional entity was formed.

    Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.080(2) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • A professional entity’s failure to require compliance with the provisions of this section is a ground for the forfeiture of its charter.

    Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.080(4) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • Directly or indirectly receiving from any person, corporation or other business organization any fee, commission, rebate or other form of compensation which is intended or tends to influence the physician’s objective evaluation or treatment of a patient is among the acts that constitute grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying licensure.

    Nev. Rev. Stat. §630.305(1)(a) · verified Sep 7, 2026

  • Dividing a fee between licensees except where the patient is informed of the division of fees and the division of fees is made in proportion to the services personally performed and the responsibility assumed by each licensee is among the acts that constitute grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying licensure.

    Nev. Rev. Stat. §630.305(1)(b) · verified Sep 7, 2026

  • Except as otherwise provided in the section, a professional entity, meaning a professional corporation or a professional limited-liability company, may be organized only for the purpose of rendering one specific type of professional service and may not engage in any business other than rendering the professional service for which it was organized and services reasonably related thereto, except that it may own real and personal property appropriate to its business and may invest its money.

    Nev. Rev. Stat. §89.050(1); §89.020(8) · verified Sep 8, 2026

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