New Hampshire ownership & cpom for med spas

Ownership & corporate practice of medicine in New Hampshire

A New Hampshire professional corporation may be organized only to render professional services within a single profession — subject to the carve-out the statute itself makes at RSA 294-A:2, II, which these claims do not reach. The chapter defines a professional service by reference to what may lawfully be rendered only by named licensed professionals — physicians and surgeons, physician associates and registered professional nurses among them — and which may not lawfully be rendered by an ordinary business corporation, and it defines a qualified person as one eligible under the chapter to own shares issued by a professional corporation.

• Except as provided in RSA 294-A:2, II, professional corporations may be organized under this chapter only for the purpose of rendering professional services, including necessary related services, within a single profession.

  N.H. Rev. Stat. §294-A:2, I (Permissible Purposes of Professional Corporations) · verified Sep 3, 2026

• Professional service means any service which may lawfully be rendered only by certified public accountants, public accountants, architects, attorneys, podiatrists, chiropractors, dentists, pharmacists, professional engineers, land surveyors, registered professional nurses, optometrists, physicians and surgeons, physician associates, psychologists, veterinarians, and all other professionals licensed, registered, certified, or otherwise authorized and permitted to practice independently under the provisions of RSA 309-B, 310-A, 311, 315, 316-A, 317-A, 318, 326-B, 327, 328-D, 329, 329-B, 330-A, or 332-B, and which may not lawfully be rendered by a corporation organized under the law of this state applicable to business corporations.

  N.H. Rev. Stat. §294-A:1, VI (“Professional service” defined) · verified Sep 3, 2026

• Professional corporation means a corporation for profit organized under this chapter.

  N.H. Rev. Stat. §294-A:1, V · verified Sep 3, 2026

• Qualified person means a natural person, general partnership, or professional corporation which is eligible under this chapter to own shares issued by a professional corporation.

  N.H. Rev. Stat. §294-A:1, VII · verified Sep 3, 2026

• Licensing authority means the officer, board, agency, court, or other authority in this state having the power to license, register, certificate, or otherwise grant legal authorization to render a professional service.

  N.H. Rev. Stat. §294-A:1, IV · verified Sep 3, 2026