The short answer for Michigan. Physician or an authorised licensee.
A good faith exam is a clinical evaluation by a licensed provider, before treatment, establishing that the treatment is appropriate for that patient. What differs between states is who is allowed to perform it, whether it may happen remotely, and what has to be documented. This page sets out what we have verified for Michigan against primary sources, and says so plainly where a question is unsettled.
Who may perform the good faith exam in Michigan
Physician or an authorised licensee.
Medical director. A Michigan-licensed physician who retains medical judgment and direction of clinical care.
Delegation and supervision. MCL 333.16215 requires delegation to be genuine authorisation, matched to the individual delegatee’s education, training and experience, and paired with actual supervision. An unlicensed individual may receive delegated acts if so qualified, under supervision.
The gate that catches operators in Michigan
For a Public Health Code service, every PC shareholder must be licensed or legally authorised in Michigan to render the same service. A plan to give an NP, a PA and an investor equity in the same medical PC does not survive it.
A medical director who is a silent partner does not satisfy the supervision the delegation statute assumes. Enforcement runs through LARA and the Michigan Board of Medicine.
What makes the exam defensible
Nobody is ever asked to produce a good faith exam on a good day. The request arrives after a complication, a board complaint, an insurance audit or a buyer’s diligence. Five things decide whether what you hand over helps you:
- A qualified practitioner, permitted in that state, actually performed it.
- A real evaluation happened — history, indications, contraindications, and a decision.
- The treatment plan and the order are specific: drug or device, site, dose or settings.
- Informed consent was taken and recorded before treatment, not after.
- The record still exists, unaltered and retrievable, two years later when somebody asks.
Only the first of those is state-specific. The other four fail in exactly the same way in Michigan as everywhere else, and they are where most exam processes actually break — not on the licence question, but on documentation nobody kept.
How Michigan sits on structure
Corporate practice of medicine. Yes, through the Professional Service Corporation Act.
The exam and the structure are separate questions and they fail separately. A perfectly documented exam performed inside an entity that may not lawfully deliver the service is still a problem, and a clean entity does not save a rubber-stamped exam. See medical direction in Michigan for the structure side.
What MDside provides in Michigan
- Michigan-licensed physicians performing the exam themselves — not a queue of signatures.
- A written evaluation, treatment plan and order per patient, in a record you keep and can export.
- Protocols and delegation written to Michigan, matched to the services actually on your menu.
- A named Michigan medical director doing the work, where your structure needs one.
- 503A and 503B pharmacy relationships and in-house lab draws where the treatment calls for them.
Book a call and we will read your current exam process against the five tests above, in Michigan and any other state you operate in. The review is free and you are not obliged to use us for the fix.
Read the detail on Michigan
Frequently asked questions
Who can perform a good faith exam in Michigan?
Physician or an authorised licensee.
Can the exam be done by telehealth in Michigan?
That depends on the state rule above and on the treatment. Where we have verified a restriction it is stated on this page; where the position is unsettled we say so rather than guess, and we confirm it with the board before you build a remote funnel.
Does Michigan require a physician medical director?
A Michigan-licensed physician who retains medical judgment and direction of clinical care.
What happens if the exam is not documented?
The exam effectively did not happen. In a complaint, an audit or a sale, an undocumented evaluation is treated as no evaluation — which is why the record, not the call, is the thing you are actually buying.
Primary sources for Michigan: MCL 333.16215; Professional Service Corporation Act, Act 192 of 1962, § 4(3); Michigan Public Health Code. Last reviewed 2026-09-03. Corrections are welcome and get made: contact us.
General information about good faith exams and practice structure in Michigan, not legal advice. Requirements differ by state and change often. Confirm your obligations with healthcare counsel licensed in Michigan.