Does a med spa have to register or hold a license in New Mexico?

Short answer
The cited rules do not settle this — they define an aesthetic healthcare facility as a business providing aesthetic procedures to the public and require an APRN or other licensed independent clinical supervisor; no facility license or registration is stated.

⚠️ New Mexico reaches the facility through the licensees inside it. 16.12.14 NMAC, effective 2024-05-21, defines an aesthetic healthcare facility as a business or other practice that provides aesthetic healthcare procedures to the general public, — the definition that brings a med spa inside the nursing board’s reach at all. Every patient encounter must generate a healthcare record, and the medical board separately requires licensees and health care entities to report malpractice payments and professional review actions. Whether New Mexico also registers such a facility as premises was not surveyed here. On compounded drugs the Board of Pharmacy’s non-sterile compounding part is direct: a non-sterile drug product may be compounded in a licensed pharmacy as a result of a practitioner’s prescription order based on the practitioner-patient-pharmacist relationship, or in limited anticipatory quantities on a history of valid prescriptions within that relationship, and a commercially available product may be compounded for dispensing to individual patients only where it is not reasonably available through normal channels in time to meet the patient’s needs and the prescriber has requested compounding, or where the compounded product is changed to produce a significant difference for that patient as the prescriber authorizes or is in the patient’s best interest — with the prescriber and patient informed that the product will be compounded. Sterile compounding is governed separately and is not surveyed by these claims.