South Dakota good-faith exam for med spas
Requirements for the good-faith examination before treatment. Below are the South Dakota rules that govern it, each linked to its primary source.
Good-faith examination in South Dakota
South Dakota's telehealth chapter states WHO may treat. Any health care professional treating a patient in the state through telehealth shall be fully licensed to practice in the state — or employed by one of the named licensed or accredited facilities — AND subject to any rule adopted by the applicable South Dakota licensing body. Telehealth itself is defined broadly: the use of secure electronic information, imaging and communication technologies by a health care professional to deliver health care services to a patient, INCLUDING interactive audio-video, interactive audio with store and forward, store-and-forward technology, and remote patient monitoring. Because the operative requirements are pushed to the licensing body's rules, these claims do not themselves fix an examination requirement; what they do fix is the standard the board measures against — professional incompetence is a deviation from the statewide standard of competence, being the minimum degree of skill and knowledge necessary to perform the characteristic tasks of a physician in at least a reasonably effective way.
Any health care professional treating a patient in the state through telehealth shall be fully licensed to practice in the state or employed by a licensed health care facility, an accredited prevention or treatment facility, a community support provider, a nonprofit mental health center, or a licensed child welfare agency under §36-32-76; and subject to any rule adopted by the applicable South Dakota licensing body.
S.D. Codified Laws §34-52-2 · verified Sep 3, 2026
"Telehealth," the use of secure electronic information, imaging, and communication technologies by a health care professional to deliver health care services to a patient, including interactive audio-video, interactive audio with store and forward, store-and-forward technology, and remote patient monitoring.
S.D. Codified Laws §34-52-1(5) · verified Sep 3, 2026
"Originating site," a site where a patient is located at the time health care services are delivered to the patient via telehealth.
S.D. Codified Laws §34-52-1(3) · verified Sep 3, 2026
For the purposes of this section, professional incompetence is a deviation from the statewide standard of competence, which is that minimum degree of skill and knowledge necessary for the performance of characteristic tasks of a physician or surgeon in at least a reasonably effective way.
S.D. Codified Laws §36-4-29 · verified Sep 3, 2026
Get South Dakota changes as they publish
We scan the South Dakota legislature and licensing boards daily, plus the FDA and the Federal Register. Free weekly Brief — what changed, in plain language, with the source.
Free · unsubscribe in one click · we never sell your address
See all South Dakota rules on the South Dakota compliance hub →
MedSpaRadar is regulatory monitoring and reference: it summarizes public laws, regulations and agency actions and links each to its source. It is not legal, medical, or compliance advice, and using it creates no attorney-client relationship. A summary can lag its source or leave out detail, and monitoring itself can be interrupted — so an absence of alerts means nothing reached you, not that nothing happened. Read the cited source, check its effective date, and confirm any change to your operations or clinical practice with qualified health-law counsel and your medical director.