What are the license fees to open a med spa in Texas?
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Short answer
The cited rules don't settle a total cost — they set only TDLR license fees: $78 for a full-service, specialty or mobile establishment, $70 for a mini-establishment, and $50 per practitioner ($75 late), with establishment licenses valid two years.
💰 Texas prices the premises by type, and late renewal is the expensive part. tdlr publishes “Initial Application Fees” of “$50 for Practitioners (Class A Barbers, Cosmetology Operators & Specialty license holders)”, “$70 for Mini-Establishments” and “$78 for Barbering & Cosmetology (“Full-Service”) Establishment, Mobile & Specialty Establishments”. Practitioner renewal runs “$50 for On-time Renewals”, “$75 for Late Renewals (expired less than 18 months)”.
TDLR Barbering and Cosmetology — Fee Changes Effective 09/01/2023 (accessed 2 September 2026) · verified Sep 2, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
Related Texas rules
⚠️ Texas permits office-use compounding outright, which few states DO. “A pharmacy may dispense and deliver a reasonable quantity of a compounded drug to a practitioner for office use by the practitioner in accordance with this chapter.” There is no commercial-availability condition and no patient-specific prescription requirement — the limit is the phrase “reasonable quantity”.
Tex. Occ. Code § 562.152 · verified Sep 2, 2026
The conditions sit on the pharmacy, not the practice. To dispense and deliver a compounded drug for office use a pharmacy must verify the source of the raw materials; comply with applicable united states pharmacopoeia guidelines including the testing requirements, and with HIPAA; comply with all applicable competency and accrediting standards as determined by the board; and comply with board rules “including rules regarding the reporting of adverse events by practitioners and recall procedures for compounded products”. That last clause reaches back to the practice: adverse-event reporting is a practitioner duty imposed through the pharmacy’s rules.
Tex. Occ. Code § 562.153 · verified Sep 2, 2026
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