What does Texas prohibit in med spa advertising?
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Texas regulates med-spa advertising through the Medical Board’s physician advertising rules, and several bite hardest on a med spa: a TESTIMONIAL is deemed misleading without both a credentials disclaimer and disclosure of compensation; models or actors must be identified as such; an undisclosed medical directorship at a non-primary location is deemed misleading; patients must consent before their photographs are used — the before-and-after gallery rule; and a copy of every advertisement must be kept for two years.
Drawn from 8 verified rules in this section · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
- 22 TAC §164.3(a) · Aug 17, 2026
- 22 TAC §164.3(b)(8) · Aug 17, 2026
- 22 TAC §164.3(b)(3) · Aug 17, 2026
- 22 TAC §164.3(b)(4) · Aug 17, 2026
- 22 TAC §164.2(a) · Aug 17, 2026
- 22 TAC §164.2(b) · Aug 17, 2026
- 22 TAC §164.2(c) · Aug 17, 2026
- Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §17.47(a) · Sep 8, 2026
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Advertising about the practice of medicine, professional credentials and qualifications is permitted, but the information in the advertisement may not be false, deceptive or misleading.
22 TAC §164.3(a) · verified Aug 17, 2026 · read at Cornell Legal Information Institute
Failing to disclose a medical directorship, or the supervision of or delegation to non-physicians, at a location that is not the physician’s primary practice location and where care is delivered under standing orders and protocols, is itself deemed false, deceptive or misleading advertising. This is the provision that reaches the common med-spa arrangement in which the supervising physician is rarely on site.
22 TAC §164.3(b)(8) · verified Aug 17, 2026 · read at Cornell Legal Information Institute
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