Can a non-physician own a med spa in North Dakota?

Short answer
The cited rules do not settle this — they only bar paying or receiving fees for services not personally rendered or for referrals, and limit a professional corporation's shareholders to same-service licensees, nonlicensed employees and minority owners.

The chapter read does not state a corporate-practice doctrine, but it does regulate the money directly, in the disciplinary grounds. Paying or receiving any fee, commission, rebate or other compensation — directly or indirectly — for medical services not actually or personally rendered, or for patient referrals, is a ground for discipline. And the same paragraph expressly preserves what it does not reach: the prohibition does not affect the lawful distributions of professional partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies or associations. These claims establish the fee-splitting and referral limits and that professional entities may lawfully distribute. Who may own the entity is answered in a different chapter, which is also cited here: a professional corporation may have as shareholders only individuals licensed or otherwise legally authorized to render the same professional service, together with the nonlicensed employees and minority owners that chapter allows, and may be created only to render one specific type of professional service and services ancillary to it, or two or more kinds of professional service that the licensing laws specifically authorize to be practiced in combination.