There is an exemption for ads that name the drug and stop there. Almost no med spa ad stops there, and the moment you add what it treats, a different rule attaches.
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You are liable for what the influencer says, even where the influencer is not. The Guides say so in one sentence, and they say what the clinic is expected to have done about it.
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Operators use the three words interchangeably. A board does not. Each document answers a different question, and the one you are missing is usually the one you get asked for.
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Federal law declines to answer this question and says so in the labeling rule. The states answer it, and New York now draws the line by how deep the device reaches.
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In most states a medical assistant holds no license at all. What yours may touch is decided by the rules for delegating to unlicensed people, and those rules are not close to uniform.
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The rule that lets you prescribe controlled substances with no in-person visit ends December 31, 2026. A final replacement is under White House review. Nobody outside the government has read it.
Three new registrations, one more for every patient state, and a platform definition that reaches companies that never write a prescription. This is the 2025 proposal. The final text is not public.
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One in-person evaluation, by the prescriber, before a controlled substance is prescribed online. Seven exceptions. Every extension since 2020 borrowed one, and the loan comes due December 31, 2026.
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An infusion clinic and an at-home prescription program are two businesses under two sets of rules. One needs a DEA registration at the address. The other rests on a rule that ends December 31, 2026.
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Nobody has been convicted for using video. The convictions and admissions describe a business model: capped visits, pay tied to prescriptions, automatic refills, and non-clinicians setting policy.
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A questionnaire reviewed later is a legitimate model in some states, a disciplinary offense in others, and a conditional pathway in most. Two states changed the answer in 2026.
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The three-color map is a trade group’s advocacy classification, not law. What binds you are chart review percentages, ratios and mileage. One state just wrote aesthetics out of its pathway.
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