STATE REFERENCE · MED SPA OVERSIGHT
Tennessee: med spa oversight directory.
Tennessee — med spa oversight and injector scope rules. Medical board: Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners (Department of Health). Corporate practice of medicine: Not verified.
This page lists who oversees a med spa in Tennessee 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.
Tennessee, field by field.
- Medical board
- Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners (Department of Health)
- Board of nursing
- Tennessee Board of Nursing (Department of Health)
- Other regulator
- Not verified on this pass. Also ask about: the state cosmetology/esthetics licensing board (what a licensed esthetician may and may not do), the state health department or radiation-control programme (energy-device registration, facility permits), and — if your medical director holds a DO rather than an MD — whether a separate osteopathic medical board licenses them. None of these is confirmed here as having jurisdiction over your services.
- Corporate practice of medicine
- Not verified
- 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. Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners (Department of Health) · Tennessee Board of Nursing (Department of Health)
Cited. No citation. The two boards and their URLs in this row were confirmed live on 2026-08-15; no statute or rule on ownership, injector scope, Good Faith Exam or energy-device delegation was verified for this state on this pass. Absence of a citation here means nothing was verified — it does not mean no rule exists.
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.
Put these five questions to the medical board and the board of nursing named in this row, in writing, and file the reply in Compliance Binder Items: (1) Which of you has jurisdiction over cosmetic injectables and energy-device treatments at a med spa in this state? (2) Does this state apply the corporate practice of medicine doctrine to a med spa, and what ownership structure is permitted? (3) Which licence levels may inject, and at what level of supervision? (4) Who may perform the Good Faith Exam, and may it be performed by telehealth? (5) May laser and other energy devices be delegated, and to whom? Nothing in this row answers any of the five for you.
Tennessee, answered from the row.
Who regulates med spas in Tennessee?
Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners (Department of Health) · Tennessee Board of Nursing (Department of Health) · Not verified on this pass. Also ask about: the state cosmetology/esthetics licensing board (what a licensed esthetician may and may not do), the state health department or radiation-control programme (energy-device registration, facility permits), and — if your medical director holds a DO rather than an MD — whether a separate osteopathic medical board licenses them. None of these is confirmed here as having jurisdiction over your services.
What is the Good Faith Exam rule in Tennessee?
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.
What do the published Tennessee 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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