Ohio good-faith exam for med spas
Requirements for the good-faith examination before treatment. Below are the Ohio rules that govern it, each linked to its primary source. Monitoring and reference, not legal advice.
Good-faith examination in Ohio
Ohio ties the pre-treatment examination to the treatment type rather than imposing one blanket rule, and it pairs it with an unusually sharp duty running the other way: if something goes wrong, the physician has to see the patient personally.
For photodynamic therapy, and for phototherapy for psoriasis, the physician must have seen and evaluated the patient to determine whether the proposed application is appropriate before it is delegated.
Ohio Admin. Code 4731-18-04 · verified Aug 17, 2026
Anyone to whom phototherapy or photodynamic therapy has lawfully been delegated must immediately report to the supervising physician any clinically significant side effect, or any failure of the treatment to progress as expected.
Ohio Admin. Code 4731-18-04 · verified Aug 17, 2026
On such a report the physician must see and personally evaluate the patient as soon as practicable. Ohio does not permit the complication to be managed at a distance by the person who caused it.
Ohio Admin. Code 4731-18-04 · verified Aug 17, 2026
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