What can a practitioner in Texas be disciplined for?
Enforcement · part of The Practice Perimeter
Short answer
Two grounds reach a med spa directly: a physician who fails to adequately supervise the people acting under their supervision, and a physician who delegates medical acts to someone they know or should know isn't qualified by training, experience, or licensure.
Two enumerated forms of unprofessional or dishonorable conduct likely to deceive or defraud the public reach a med spa directly. One is a physician who “fails to supervise adequately the activities of those acting under the supervision of the physician”. The other is a physician who “delegates professional medical responsibility or acts to a person if the delegating physician knows or has reason to know that the person is not qualified by training, experience, or licensure to perform the responsibility or acts”.
Tex. Occ. Code § 164.053(a)(8)-(9) · verified Sep 8, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related Texas rules
A physician commits a prohibited practice by committing “unprofessional or dishonorable conduct that is likely to deceive or defraud the public”, and separately by using “an advertising statement that is false, misleading, or deceptive”.
Tex. Occ. Code § 164.052(a)(5)-(6) · verified Sep 8, 2026
Practicing medicine without a license in Texas is a third-degree felony, and each day of unlicensed practice is a separate offense.
Tex. Occ. Code §165.152 · verified Jul 26, 2026
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