Vermont ownership & cpom for med spas
Corporate-practice-of-medicine limits on who may own an aesthetic practice. Below are the Vermont rules that govern it, each linked to its primary source.
Ownership & corporate practice of medicine in Vermont
Vermont defines a professional service as one that may lawfully be rendered only by a licensed person and MAY NOT lawfully be rendered by an ordinary business corporation. It separately defines a qualified person — an individual or general partnership eligible under the chapter to be issued shares by a professional corporation — and a licensing authority as the body empowered to authorize the rendition of a professional service. These are the chapter’s definitions; the operative share-issue restriction sits elsewhere in the chapter and is not quoted here. The Medical Practice Act also names the arrangement itself: division of fees, or agreeing to split or divide the fees received for professional services with any person for bringing or referring a patient, is unprofessional conduct.
Professional service means a service that may be lawfully rendered only by a person licensed or otherwise authorized by a licensing authority in this State to render the service, and may not be lawfully rendered by a corporation under Title 11A.
Vt. Stat. tit. 11, §817(6) · verified Sep 3, 2026
Qualified person means an individual or general partnership that is eligible under this chapter to be issued shares by a professional corporation.
Vt. Stat. tit. 11, §817(7) · verified Sep 3, 2026
Professional corporation means a corporation for profit, other than a foreign professional corporation, subject to the provisions of this chapter.
Vt. Stat. tit. 11, §817(5) · verified Sep 3, 2026
Licensing authority means the officer, board, agency, court, or other authority in this State empowered to license or otherwise authorize the rendition of a professional service.
Vt. Stat. tit. 11, §817(4) · verified Sep 3, 2026
The Board shall find that the following constitutes unprofessional conduct: division of fees or agreeing to split or divide the fees received for professional services for any person for bringing to or referring a patient
Vt. Stat. tit. 26, §1354(a)(12) · verified Sep 7, 2026
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