STATE REFERENCE · MED SPA OVERSIGHT
New York: med spa oversight directory.
New York — med spa oversight and injector scope rules. Medical board: New York State Board for Medicine (NYSED Office of the Professions). Corporate practice of medicine: Doctrine applies — cited.
This page lists who oversees a med spa in New York and where the published rules sit: the medical board, the board of nursing, any other regulator that reaches aesthetic practices, the state's position on the corporate practice of medicine, a summary of what the published rules say about who may perform delegated cosmetic procedures, and the Good Faith Exam requirement.
It is built for med spa owners and medical directors who need the state's own sources in one place. It contains no clinical guidance — nothing here says how to perform a procedure — and it is a dated research snapshot for your own confirmation, not legal or medical advice.
New York, field by field.
- Medical board
- New York State Board for Medicine (NYSED Office of the Professions)
- Board of nursing
- New York State Board for Nursing (NYSED Office of the Professions)
- Other regulator
- Not verified on this pass. New York physician discipline is handled by the Department of Health's Office of Professional Medical Conduct rather than by NYSED — confirm which body handles what before you write to either. Also ask about NYSED's Office of the Professions for esthetician scope.
- Corporate practice of medicine
- Doctrine applies — cited
- Injector scope summary
- NOT VERIFIED on this pass. This workspace has found no rule it could cite for this state, and it will not guess or borrow one from a neighbouring state. Do not read this blank as permission. Ask the boards named in this row.
- Good Faith Exam rule
- NOT VERIFIED on this pass. This workspace has found no rule it could cite for this state, and it will not guess or borrow one from a neighbouring state. Do not read this blank as permission. Ask the boards named in this row.
Where this comes from.
Regulators. New York State Board for Medicine (NYSED Office of the Professions) · New York State Board for Nursing (NYSED Office of the Professions)
Cited. N.Y. Educ. Law § 6522: "Only a person licensed or otherwise authorized under this article shall practice medicine or use the title 'physician'." N.Y. Bus. Corp. Law § 1503(a): a professional service corporation may be organised by "one or more individuals duly authorized by law to render the same professional service within the state," and § 1503(b) requires the certificate of incorporation to name the original shareholders and attach licensing certification for each. Both read 2026-08-15 on nysenate.gov, the New York State Senate's official legislation site.
Status. Partially verified — some rules cited, last verified 2026-08-15. Start with the medical board and board of nursing links — they are the primary sources. Read the injector-scope summary as a pointer into the cited rule, not as the rule itself, and settle the corporate-practice question with counsel in your state before signing any ownership or medical-director agreement. Patients are patients, the exam is a Good Faith Exam, and consent is informed consent.
What to confirm.
The two statutes quoted are the ownership provisions, not an opinion about your specific structure. Ask a New York healthcare attorney whether your entity and any management services agreement comply with Educ. Law Article 131 and BCL Article 15. Ask the NYS Board for Nursing and the Department of Health, in writing, who may inject, at what supervision level, who may perform the Good Faith Exam and whether telehealth is acceptable for it. This row answers none of that.
New York, answered from the row.
Who regulates med spas in New York?
New York State Board for Medicine (NYSED Office of the Professions) · New York State Board for Nursing (NYSED Office of the Professions) · Not verified on this pass. New York physician discipline is handled by the Department of Health's Office of Professional Medical Conduct rather than by NYSED — confirm which body handles what before you write to either. Also ask about NYSED's Office of the Professions for esthetician scope.
What is the Good Faith Exam rule in New York?
NOT VERIFIED on this pass. This workspace has found no rule it could cite for this state, and it will not guess or borrow one from a neighbouring state. Do not read this blank as permission. Ask the boards named in this row.
Does New York apply the corporate practice of medicine doctrine to med spas?
Doctrine applies — cited
What do the published New York rules say about injector scope?
NOT VERIFIED on this pass. This workspace has found no rule it could cite for this state, and it will not guess or borrow one from a neighbouring state. Do not read this blank as permission. Ask the boards named in this row.
Not legal or medical advice, and nothing on this page is clinical guidance. Every row is a dated snapshot of published sources; confirm every entry with the boards named and your own counsel before relying on it.
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