What are the license fees to open a med spa in Virginia?
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The cited rules do not settle total cost — they set only esthetics fees: spa premises license $220 application, $220 renewal, $440 reinstatement; each esthetician $120/$120/$240, all nonrefundable. Virginia issues no med spa license itself.
💰 Virginia’s esthetics fees are flat, nonrefundable, and double if you let the license lapse. “All fees are nonrefundable and will not be prorated.” For “Individuals”, Application $120, Renewal $120, and Reinstatement $240 — the schedule spells out that this “includes $120 renewal fee and $120 reinstatement fee”. For “Spas” the premises license is Application $220, Renewal $220, Reinstatement $440. Letting either lapse costs exactly twice the renewal, which is the cheapest avoidable expense in this corpus.
18VAC41-70-120 · verified Sep 2, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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Virginia compounds patient by patient, and ties it back to the examination duty. a pharmacist may compound when dispensing is “(i) pursuant to valid prescriptions for specific patients and (ii) consistent with the provisions of § 54.1-3303 relating to the issuance of prescriptions and the dispensing of drugs” — which is the bona fide practitioner-patient relationship, examination included. The two questions are one question in Virginia.
Va. Code § 54.1-3410.2(A) · verified Sep 2, 2026
Anticipatory compounding is permitted but tethered to observed demand: a pharmacist may compound “in anticipation of receipt of prescriptions based on a routine, regularly observed prescribing pattern”, labeling each product with the name and strength or active ingredients, the pharmacy’s control number, an appropriate beyond-use date under USP-NF standards, and the quantity.
Va. Code § 54.1-3410.2(B) · verified Sep 2, 2026
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