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Does a med spa have to register or hold a license in Oregon?

Facility · part of The Practice Perimeter

Oregon prices the premises in the Health Licensing Office’s fee rule rather than in the cosmetology chapter, which defines the “facility” — an establishment operated on a regular or irregular basis for the purpose of providing services in one or more fields of practice — and stops there. The fees, established by the Office in consultation with the Board, are: a facility license application of $140 and original issuance of $155 for one year, renewed at $155 for one year; a practitioner certificate application of $30 per field of practice, original issuance of $35 for two years and renewal of $65 for two years. These claims describe cosmetology facility licensure and its cost; they do not address med-spa or medical facility registration, and the chapter’s definition of esthetics, which draws the line at medical diagnosis or treatment, is set out in the supervision section of this reference. On compounded drugs the Pharmacy Act’s only provision on record here is definitional: “manufacture” does not include the preparation or compounding of a drug by a practitioner as an incident to administering or dispensing it in the course of professional practice. That is what the statute says; these claims do not survey the Board of Pharmacy’s compounding rules, and whether a particular compounded semaglutide or tirzepatide product may be supplied to or administered in a med spa is not answered by them.

Drawn from 5 verified rules in this section · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice

The rest of what Oregon says on this

Every other rule we have verified under med-spa registration & licensing, each linked to its primary source.

  • Facility means an establishment operated on a regular or irregular basis for the purpose of providing services in one or more fields of practice.

    Or. Rev. Stat. §690.005(7) (“Facility” defined) · verified Sep 3, 2026

  • Fees established by the Office, in consultation with the Board, are as follows: (a) Application: (A) Practitioner certificate: $30 per field of practice. (E) Facility license: $140. (c) Original issuance of authorization to practice: (A) Practitioner certificate: $35 for two years. (E) Facility license: $155 for one year.

    Or. Admin. R. 817-040-0003(2)(a), (c) (Fees) · verified Sep 7, 2026

  • (e) Renewal of authorization to practice: (A) Practitioner certificate: $65 for two years. (D) Facility license: $155 for one year. Fee applies to each renewal cycle even while in inactive status.

    Or. Admin. R. 817-040-0003(2)(e) (Fees — renewal) · verified Sep 7, 2026

  • “Manufacture” means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a device or a drug, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substances or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a drug by an individual for their own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a drug: (a) By a practitioner as an incident to administering or dispensing of a drug in the course of professional practice.

    Or. Rev. Stat. §689.005(20) (“Manufacture” defined — practitioner compounding incident to administering or dispensing excluded) · verified Sep 7, 2026

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