Oregon ownership & cpom for med spas
Corporate-practice-of-medicine limits on who may own an aesthetic practice. Below are the Oregon rules that govern it, each linked to its primary source. Monitoring and reference, not legal advice.
Ownership & corporate practice of medicine in Oregon
An Oregon professional corporation may render its professional services ONLY through persons licensed or otherwise authorized in this state to render them. The chapter also says expressly that it does not affect the professional relationship with the patient or the standards of professional conduct, and it keeps a shareholder personally liable for their own negligent or wrongful acts and for those of anyone under their direct supervision and control.
A domestic professional corporation or a foreign professional corporation may render professional service or services in this state only through a person or persons who are licensed or otherwise authorized in this state to render such professional service or services.
Or. Rev. Stat. §58.156(1) (Method by which professional corporation to render services) · verified Sep 3, 2026
This chapter does not affect the law applicable to the professional relationship between a person rendering professional service or services and a person receiving the service or services, and it does not affect the standards of professional conduct of a profession.
Or. Rev. Stat. §58.185(2) · verified Sep 3, 2026
In the rendering of specified professional services on behalf of a domestic professional corporation to a person receiving the service or services, a shareholder of the corporation is personally liable as if the shareholder were rendering the service or services as an individual, only for negligent or wrongful acts or omissions or misconduct committed by the shareholder, or by a person under the direct supervision and control of the shareholder.
Or. Rev. Stat. §58.185(3) · verified Sep 3, 2026
Licensed Oregon shareholder means a shareholder of a professional corporation who holds a license to render the specified professional services of the corporation and who practices more than incidentally in this state.
Or. Rev. Stat. §58.185(1)(a) · verified Sep 3, 2026
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