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Utah: medical director for a aesthetic / medical spa
Whether Utah requires a physician medical director for a aesthetic / medical spa, the qualifications, duties and the rule it comes from.
Qualifications
Physician (MD/DO) with an unrestricted Utah license, OR an APRN with an unrestricted Utah license — Utah is unusual in this dataset for letting a non-physician APRN fill this role outright, not just as a delegate under a physician.
Duties the rule assigns
- supervise (at the direct/indirect/general tier the specific procedure requires under § 58-1-506) each delegated cosmetic medical procedure
Notes
Utah statute does not use the term 'medical director' — it defines a 'cosmetic medical procedure supervisor' role instead, with three supervision tiers (direct/indirect/general) rather than a single facility-wide director designation. Primary text could not be directly pulled from Utah's own code site in this research pass (site inaccessible to automated tools); citation is drawn from a compliance vendor's rule summary — verify the exact statutory language before relying on it.
Sources (2)
- Utah Code §§ 58-1-505, 58-1-506
- Utah Admin. Code R156-1-506 (80-hour training requirement for nonablative cosmetic procedures)
Delegated services in this practice type
Business ownership and clinical authority are separate questions in this practice type. What the state says about the staff who deliver the services.
Registered Nurses
RNs (general licensure, not an APRN) are not subject to physician-supervision or collaborative-practice-agreement requirements in Utah; RN practice under § 58-31b is defined without a physician-oversight condition, in contrast to Utah's separate, narrower LPN/CNA license tiers.
For medical-aesthetics (med-spa) businesses performing delegated medical procedures, RN ownership of the business entity doesn't remove the need for physician delegation/oversight of the procedures themselves — not independently confirmed against a Utah-specific med-spa rule in this research pass.
Estheticians
Utah recently restructured its esthetics licensing (S.B. 330) into a tiered 200-hour basic esthetics permit and 1,200-hour master esthetics license under Title 58, Ch. 11a, replacing the older standalone esthetician license. Both tiers practice independently within their scope — no physician involvement required. Whether laser/IPL devices are excluded from that scope (as in most states on file) was not separately confirmed for Utah in this research pass.
Whether a physician-owned entity is required for any delegated medical procedure an esthetician might perform (e.g. laser) was not confirmed for Utah in this research pass.
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