What limits does New Jersey place on a med spa's business structure?
Ownership · part of The Practice Perimeter
Short answer
A partnership, professional association or LLC only if every member is licensed for the same or a closely allied service. A business corporation may employ a licensee only in five named settings, such as a hospital, or be a non-clinical limited partner.
A practitioner may practice in a partnership, professional association or limited liability company only where that entity is composed solely of health care professionals, each duly licensed or otherwise authorized to render the same or a closely allied professional service in New Jersey. Closely allied fields include chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, midwifery, optometry, physical therapy, podiatry, psychology and social work.
N.J.A.C. 13:35-6.16(f)2 · verified Aug 17, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related New Jersey rules
⚠️ New Jersey’s rule is a self-referral ban with a 1991 cut-off. “a practitioner shall not refer a patient or direct an employee of the practitioner to refer a patient to a health care service in which the practitioner or the practitioner’s immediate family, or the practitioner in combination with the practitioner’s immediate family, has a significant beneficial interest, unless the practitioner held the interest prior to july 31, 1991” and discloses it. Interests taken after that date are not curable by disclosure — they bar the referral.
N.J.A.C. 13:35-6.17 · verified Sep 2, 2026 · read at Cornell Legal Information Institute
⚠️ and “health care service” is defined to include dispensing drugs and devices. It means “a business entity which provides on an in-patient or out-patient basis: Testing for or diagnosis or treatment of human disease or dysfunction or dispensing of drugs or medical devices for the treatment of human disease or dysfunction”, including but not limited to a bioanalytical laboratory, pharmacy, home health care agency or home infusion therapy company. An entity that dispenses drugs or devices is inside the referral rule.
N.J.A.C. 13:35-6.17 (“health care service”) · verified Sep 2, 2026 · read at Cornell Legal Information Institute
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