Can a med spa in North Dakota offer compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide?
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⛔ NORTH DAKOTA ANSWERS THE COMPOUNDED-SEMAGLUTIDE QUESTION IN THE DEFINITION, AND NEITHER LIMB REACHES A CLINIC BUYING STOCK. "Compounding" means the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a drug or device: a. As the result of a practitioner's prescription drug order or initiative based on the practitioner, patient, and pharmacist relationship in the course of professional practice; or b. For the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale or dispensing. Limb (a) needs a prescription order resting on the practitioner-patient-pharmacist relationship; limb (b) is research and is expressly not for sale or dispensing.
N.D. Cent. Code § 43-15-01 (⛔ definition of “Compounding” — two limbs, one of them not for sale) · verified Sep 6, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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Stock held ahead of the order is permitted, and what may justify it is fixed. Compounding also includes the preparation of drugs or devices in anticipation of prescription drug orders based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns. The anticipation must rest on prescribing already observed.
N.D. Cent. Code § 43-15-01 (anticipatory stock is allowed, bounded by observed prescribing) · verified Sep 6, 2026
And both acts sit inside the licensed practice. The compounding, dispensing, and labeling of drugs and devices except labeling by a manufacturer, packer, or distributor of nonprescription drugs and commercially packaged legend drugs and devices
N.D. Cent. Code § 43-15-01 (compounding and dispensing are both the practice of pharmacy) · verified Sep 6, 2026
⛔ NORTH DAKOTA CAPS THE COST OF ENTRY IN STATUTE RATHER THAN SETTING IT, WHICH IS A DIFFERENT ANSWER AND HAS TO BE READ AS ONE. Fees to be paid by applicants as required under this chapter may not exceed the following amounts: a. Fees: MAXIMUM FEE: (1) Establishment, original license $150.00 (2) Establishment, annual renewal $100.00 per year These are ceilings the board may not exceed, not the amounts actually charged — the board sets the real figure beneath them by rule, so an operator should treat $150.00 as the most an establishment license can cost, not the price.
N.D. Cent. Code § 43-11-28(2) (⛔ what it costs to open — statutory MAXIMUM fees, not set prices) · verified Sep 6, 2026
The practitioner side is capped separately and far lower. (13) Esthetician, original license $50.00 (14) Esthetician, annual renewal $50.00 per year with the advanced esthetician license capped at the same $50.00, so premises and practitioner together are capped at $200.00 in year one.
N.D. Cent. Code § 43-11-28(2)(a) (the practitioner licenses a studio also pays) · verified Sep 6, 2026
License required. Repealed by S.L. 1987, ch. 525, § 13.
N.D.C.C. § 43-17-16 (Repealed — there is no standing "License required" section) · verified Sep 5, 2026
In order to obtain a license to practice medicine in this state, an application must be made to the board through the executive director .
N.D.C.C. § 43-17-17 (Application for license) · verified Sep 5, 2026
Every applicant for licensure shall file a written application, on forms provided by the board, showing to the board's satisfaction that the applicant satisfies all of the requirements of this chapter
N.D.C.C. § 43-17-18(1) (Physician license requirements) · verified Sep 5, 2026
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