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Utah med spa & injectable regulations

What’s changing for med spas and injectors in Utah — GLP-1 compounding, scope-of-practice, and enforcement — plus the federal FDA and Federal Register actions that apply in Utah. MedSpaRadar monitors it all and tells you, in plain language, what changed and what to do.

Opening a med spa in Utah? Start with who may own one, the medical director rules, and who may inject in Utah →

Latest Utah changes

No Utah-specific changes have crossed our radar yet — we’re monitoring the Utah legislature daily. The Utah legislature has adjourned sine die (2026 Regular Session). No further session is listed yet. The federal changes below apply to every Utah practice today.

Federal changes that apply in Utah

FDA and Federal Register actions are nationwide — they govern Utah practices too.

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What we monitor in Utah

  • Utah legislature — bills on injectables, GLP-1s & scope of practice
  • Utah Occupational & Professional Licensing — Notices and alerts for licensed professionals, from the division that licenses Utah physicians and nurses.
  • Utah Attorney General — Enforcement and consumer-protection announcements, including actions against unlicensed practice.
  • U.S. FDA — enforcement, warning letters, recalls, shortages
  • Federal Register — new rules on compounding & aesthetics

Utah med spa questions, answered from statute

The same verified record, asked the way operators actually ask it — who may own one, who may inject, what the supervising physician has to do. 21 questions have a cited Utah answer today.

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Utah med-spa compliance rules

41 rules across 7 topics — physician delegation, the good-faith exam, ownership & corporate practice of medicine, RN/NP scope, med-spa registration, advertising, and enforcement — each linked to its primary source. Reference and monitoring, not legal advice.

Physician supervision & delegation8 cited rules

Section 58-1-506 sorts who may be delegated a cosmetic medical procedure into delegation group a (physician assistant, registered nurse, master esthetician, and an electrologist for laser hair removal) and GROUP B (practical nurse, esthetician, medical assistant), then grades supervision — GENERAL supervision…

Good-faith examination4 cited rules

Before a treatment protocol or series of treatments begins for a NONABLATIVE cosmetic medical procedure, a physician, a nurse practitioner or a physician assistant — each holding an unrestricted license — must develop the treatment plan for that procedure AND conduct an evaluation of the patient, either in person…

Ownership & corporate practice of medicine6 cited rules

Section 58-67-501 puts within “unlawful conduct” the act of substantially interfering with a licensee’s lawful and competent practice of medicine by any person or entity that manages, owns, operates, or conducts a business having a direct or indirect financial interest in that practice.

RN / NP scope for injectables4 cited rules

Issuing a prescription for a prescription drug as an RN or LPN is listed as unprofessional conduct except under Section 58-17b, the section the rule itself names.

Disciplinary landscape8 cited rules

Utah publishes a citation schedule with a per-day rate on it. Practicing, or attempting to practice, a profession requiring licensure under Title 58 without a license is unlawful conduct under Section 58-1-501, and unprofessional conduct separately covers violating any statute, rule or order regulating a profession, and aiding or abetting another to violate a professional or ethical standard. Failure to comply with the cosmetic medical procedure supervision statute is itself unprofessional conduct. Under the Medical Practice Act rule specifically, the division publishes a fine and citation schedule on which ongoing offenses run at $2,000 per day. Its formal disciplinary proceedings reach revocation, suspension, restricted or probationary licensure, a cease and desist order, administrative fines and public reprimand.

  • "Unlawful conduct" means conduct, by any person, that is defined as unlawful under this title and includes when the person: (a) practices or engages in, represents oneself to be practicing or engaging in, or attempts to practice or engage in any profession requiring licensure under this title

    Utah Code § 58-1-501(1)(a) (Unlawful and unprofessional conduct)

  • Failure to comply with the provisions of this section is unprofessional conduct.

    Utah Code § 58-1-506(5) (Supervision of cosmetic medical procedures)

  • "Unprofessional conduct" means conduct, by a licensee or applicant, that is defined as unprofessional conduct under this title or under any rule adopted under this title and includes when a licensee or applicant: (i) violates any statute, rule, or order regulating a profession under this title; (ii) violates or engages in aiding or abetting any other person to violate, any generally accepted professional or ethical standard applicable to an occupation or profession regulated under this title;

    Utah Code § 58-1-501(2)(a) (Unlawful and unprofessional conduct)

  • formal disciplinary proceeding for revocation, suspension, restricted licensure, probationary licensure, cease and desist order or administrative fine not through citation, or public reprimand;

    Utah Admin. Code R156-1 (adjudicative proceedings — formal disciplinary proceedings)

  • Under Sections 58-1-502, 58-67-503 and Subsection 58-67-102(3), unless otherwise ordered by the presiding officer, the following fine and citation schedule shall apply:

    Utah Admin. Code R156-67-503(1) (Administrative penalties)

  • Ongoing offenses $2,000 per day but not less than second offense

    Utah Admin. Code R156-67-503 Table 1 (Fine and Citation Schedule)

  • Utah sets one penalty for every kind of unlawful conduct in the licensing title, and practicing without a license is one of them. “Unless otherwise specified in this title, a person who violates the unlawful conduct provisions defined in this title is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.” Money runs alongside the criminal exposure rather than instead of it: “unless a specific fine amount is specified elsewhere in this title, the director or the director’s designee may assess an administrative fine of up to $1,000 for each instance of unprofessional or unlawful conduct defined in this title.” What counts as unlawful conduct is set by the section before this one, which this claim does not carry.

    Utah Code § 58-1-502(1) (Unlawful and unprofessional conduct — Penalties)

  • And the division may stop the conduct itself, not only fine it. On an uncontested citation, a stipulated settlement or a finding in an adjudicative proceeding, “the division may, in addition to or in lieu of a fine … order the person to cease and desist from violating Subsection 58-1-501(1)(a)” — the unlicensed-practice provision — and a cease and desist order is the one licensure sanction the division MAY issue through a citation.

    Utah Code § 58-1-502(2)(b)-(c) (citation, fine, and cease and desist)

Med-spa registration & licensing7 cited rules

Utah puts five posting and disclosure duties on the supervisor, which is a different sentence from putting them on the facility — the statute names who must ensure them. a supervisor performing or supervising a cosmetic medical procedure must ensure their name is prominently posted at the cosmetic medical facility, a copy of their license is displayed on the wall, the patient receives written information naming both the supervisor and the person performing the NONABLATIVE procedure, the patient is given a telephone number answered within 24 HOURS for follow-up, and the facility’s contract with a master esthetician who performs a nonablative procedure there is kept on the premises. Sedation carries named external standards incorporated by reference, and medical records must be kept per applicable law and the AMA Code of Medical Ethics. Whether Utah separately registers a med spa as premises was not surveyed here. The PRICE of the credential is on the Division’s published fee schedule: an esthetician license is $60.00 to apply and $52.00 to renew, a master esthetician $85.00 and $68.00, a basic esthetics permit $60.00 and $52.00, a cosmetology license $60.00 and $52.00, and an esthetician school $110.00 each way. These claims carry practitioner and school fees only; no salon or establishment fee is surveyed.

  • Utah answers the compounded-semaglutide question by exclusion, and the exclusion is the sharpest on this pass. "Compounding" does not include the preparation by a pharmacist or pharmacy intern of any prescription drug in a dosage form which is regularly and commonly available from a manufacturer in quantities and strengths prescribed by a practitioner Semaglutide and tirzepatide are regularly and commonly available from their manufacturers, so preparing them in the marketed dosage form is not compounding in Utah at all — it falls outside the definition rather than inside it on conditions.

    Utah Code § 58-17b-102(18)(b)(ii) (preparing a commercially available drug is NOT compounding)

  • The supply-chain route is excluded in the same subsection. "Compounding" does not include the preparation of prescription drugs by a pharmacist or pharmacy intern for sale to another pharmacist or pharmaceutical facility — so a pharmacy preparing stock to sell on to a clinic is not compounding either.

    Utah Code § 58-17b-102(18)(b)(i) (…nor is preparing drugs for sale to another pharmacy or facility)

  • The positive definition has three limbs and bounds the quantity from the first word. "Compounding" means the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging, or labeling of a limited quantity drug, sterile product, or device: (i) as the result of a practitioner's prescription order or initiative based on the practitioner, patient, or pharmacist relationship in the course of professional practice; (ii) for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale or dispensing; or (iii) in anticipation of prescription drug orders based on routine, regularly observed prescribing patterns.

    Utah Code § 58-17b-102(18)(a) (the three limbs, including anticipatory stock)

  • A supervisor performing or supervising a cosmetic medical procedure under Subsection (2) or (3) shall ensure that: (a) the supervisor’s name is prominently posted at the cosmetic medical facility identifying the supervisor; (b) a copy of the supervisor’s license is displayed on the wall of the cosmetic medical facility; (c) the patient receives written information with the name and licensing information of the supervisor who is supervising the nonablative cosmetic medical procedure and the person who is performing the nonablative cosmetic medical procedure; (d) the patient is provided with a telephone number that is answered within 24 hours for follow-up communication; and (e) the cosmetic medical facility’s contract with a master esthetician who performs a nonablative cosmetic medical procedure at the facility is kept on the premises of the facility.

    Utah Code § 58-1-506(4) (Supervision of cosmetic medical procedures — facility duties)

  • a physician who is providing general anesthesia, deep sedation, or moderate sedation shall possess the knowledge, skills, and education and training required by the following standards, and shall comply with the following standards: (1) the following American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) standards, which are incorporated by reference: (a) Basic Standards for Preanesthesia Care, 2020 edition; (b) Standards for Basic Anesthetic Monitoring, 2020 edition; and (c) Standards for Postanesthesia Care, 2019 edition;

    Utah Admin. Code R156-67-510 (Anesthesia and sedation requirements)

  • Under Subsection 58-67-803(1), medical records shall be maintained in accordance with: (1) applicable laws, regulations, and rules; and (2) the AMA Code of Medical Ethics as incorporated by reference in Subsection R156-67-502(14).

    Utah Admin. Code R156-67-803 (Medical records)

  • The Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing’s fee schedule (initial application, then renewal): Esthetician N/A $60.00 $52.00 Esthetician Esthetician Apprentice $20.00 $20.00 Esthetician Esthetician Instructor $60.00 N/A Esthetician Esthetician School $110.00 $110.00 Esthetician Basic Esthetics Permit $60.00 $52.00 Esthetician Master Esthetician $85.00 $68.00; Cosmetology N/A $60.00 $52.00

    Utah DOPL Fee Schedule — Esthetician; Master Esthetician; Cosmetology (published schedule)

Advertising rules4 cited rules

“Advertisement” reaches billboards, brochures, direct mail, radio and television scripts, telephone directories, internet websites and any other means of promotion intended to induce a person to enter into an agreement for services with a health care provider.

Current as of Sep 7, 2026. Verify against the linked primary source and consult qualified counsel before acting — rules change and turn on your specific facts.

Who may perform it in Utah?

We hold Utah’s own written limits for chemical peel, injectable (neuromodulator, dermal filler), microneedling / collagen induction, body contouring (cryolipolysis, RF, ultrasound), mechanical exfoliation (dermaplaning, microdermabrasion), energy device (laser, IPL, RF, plasma, ultrasound), hair removal (laser / IPL) — read at source and cited. Check a licence against a procedure and see the rule it rests on.

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Utah med spa compliance — FAQ

Where do Utah med spa and injectable regulations come from?
Utah med spas and injectors are governed by a mix of state and federal authorities — the Utah legislature, and the state's boards of nursing, medicine, and pharmacy, alongside federal bodies like the FDA and the Federal Register. MedSpaRadar monitors all of them for Utah and flags what changed in plain language.
Does the FDA's GLP-1 compounding guidance apply in Utah?
Yes — federal FDA actions on GLP-1 compounding (semaglutide, tirzepatide) apply nationwide, including in Utah. We track those federal changes alongside any Utah-specific rules so you see the full picture for your practice.
How do I keep up with Utah regulatory changes?
MedSpaRadar sends a free weekly Brief on what changed across Utah, the FDA, and the Federal Register. Members get the exact "what to do" for their states in one daily email. It's regulatory monitoring, not legal advice.

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