What are the license fees to open a med spa in Wisconsin?
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The cited rules do not settle total startup cost — Wisconsin issues no med spa license, and the only fees given are $11 to apply and $11 to renew ($36 if late) for an aesthetician, an aesthetics establishment and an aesthetics school, due 3/31 of odd years.
💰 Wisconsin’s renewal fees are the lowest in this corpus, and a late renewal costs more than three times the fee. The Department’s “Business & Health Credential Fees and Renewal Dates” table has columns “Initial Fee”, “Renewal Fee” and “Renew by Date”, and the rows a med spa needs are identical: “Aesthetician Individual $11 $11 03/31/Odd”, “Aesthetics Establishment Organization $11 $11 03/31/Odd” and “Aesthetics School Organization $11 $11 03/31/Odd”. The page adds that “All Business and Health Credentials incur a $25 late fee if renewed after the expiration date.” Note the common renewal date — every aesthetics credential in the state expires on the same day of the same odd year, so a lapse hits the practitioner and the premises at once.
Wisconsin DSPS — Credential Fees and Renewal Dates, Business & Health Credential Fees and Renewal Dates (accessed 28 September 2026) · verified Sep 28, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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Wisconsin lets the practitioner compound, which many states DO NOT. “No person other than a pharmacist or practitioner or their agents and employees as directed, supervised, and inspected by the pharmacist or practitioner, including pharmacy technicians, may prepare, compound, dispense, or prepare for delivery for a patient any prescription drug.” Three verbs govern the delegate — directed, supervised AND inspected — so an unsupervised staff member preparing an injectable is outside the statute.
Wis. Stat. § 450.11(3) · verified Sep 2, 2026
The prescription order still gates the dispensing: “no person may dispense any prescribed drug or device except upon the prescription order of a practitioner”, and that order must specify the date of issue, the practitioner’s name and address, the name and quantity of the drug, directions for use, and the patient’s name and address.
Wis. Stat. § 450.11(1) · verified Sep 2, 2026
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