New York good-faith exam for med spas
Requirements for the good-faith examination before treatment. Below are the New York rules that govern it, each linked to its primary source.
Good-faith examination in New York
New York builds the requirement rather than naming it. PRESCRIBING sits inside the statutory definition of the practice of medicine, and the enforcement route is the misconduct grounds of practicing with negligence on more than one occasion or incompetence on more than one occasion.
Prescribing is within the statutory definition of the practice of medicine: the practice of medicine is defined as diagnosing, treating, operating or prescribing for any human disease, pain, injury, deformity or physical condition.
N.Y. Educ. Law §6521 · verified Aug 17, 2026
Practicing the profession with negligence on more than one occasion, or with incompetence on more than one occasion, is professional misconduct — the grounds through which a failure to evaluate a patient before treatment is reached in New York.
N.Y. Educ. Law §6530(3), §6530(5) · verified Aug 17, 2026
New York puts the assessment and the diagnosis inside the definition of telehealth itself. “Telehealth” means “the use of electronic information and communication technologies by telehealth providers to deliver health care services, which shall include the assessment, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management and/or self-management of a patient”, and “Telemedicine” means “the use of synchronous, two-way electronic audio visual communications to deliver clinical health care services, which shall include the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of a patient, while such patient is at the originating site and a telehealth provider is at a distant site.” The modality list is closed and short: “telehealth shall be limited to telemedicine, store and forward technology, remote patient monitoring and audio-only telephone communication”, and “Telehealth shall not include delivery of health care services by means of facsimile machines, or electronic messaging alone”. A “telehealth provider” is enumerated by license: “a physician licensed pursuant to article one hundred thirty-one of the education law” is (a), “a physician assistant licensed pursuant to article one hundred thirty-one-B of the education law” is (b), and “a nurse practitioner licensed pursuant to article one hundred thirty-nine of the education law” is (d) — so the remote encounter is authorized for exactly the clinicians a med spa would use.
N.Y. Pub. Health Law § 2999-cc(2), (4)-(5) (Telehealth — definitions) · verified Sep 8, 2026 · read at Internet Archive snapshot — evidence of a page, not the current rule
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