Can a med spa in New Mexico offer compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide?
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Short answer
Not directly — the cited rules govern pharmacies, not med spas: non-sterile compounding needs a prescription and a licensed pharmacy, and a commercially available drug only on stated conditions, starting with it not being timely available.
New Mexico lets a pharmacy compound a commercially available product for dispensing only on stated conditions, which is the compounded-semaglutide question in one paragraph. Commercially available product may be compounded for dispensing to individual patients provided the following conditions are met: (a) the commercial product is not reasonably available from normal distribution channels in a timely manner to meet patient’s needs; and (b) the prescribing practitioner has requested that the drug be compounded; or (c) if the compounded product is changed to produce for that patient a significant difference, as authorized by the prescriber, between the compounded drug and the comparable commercially available drug product, or if use of the compounded product is in the best interest of the patient; when a compounded product is to be dispensed in place of a commercially available product, the prescriber and patient shall be informed that the product will be compounded.
16.19.30.9(A)(3) NMAC (Compounding of Non-Sterile Pharmaceuticals — commercially available products) · verified Sep 8, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related New Mexico rules
“Aesthetic healthcare facility” means a business or other practice that provides aesthetic healthcare procedures to the general public .
16.12.14.7(A)(3) NMAC (Definitions; eff. 2024-05-21) · verified Sep 4, 2026
Every patient encounter in an aesthetic healthcare facility must generate a healthcare record.
16.12.14.11(A) NMAC (Patient records, confidentiality, and advertising) · verified Sep 4, 2026
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