The short answer for Louisiana. A PRE-TREATMENT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION BY THE PHYSICIAN, with the prescriber physically present on the premises.
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 Louisiana against primary sources, and says so plainly where a question is unsettled.
Who may perform the good faith exam in Louisiana
A PRE-TREATMENT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION BY THE PHYSICIAN, with the prescriber physically present on the premises.
Medical director. MD or DO. Physicians alone delegate the medical acts — neurotoxin, fillers, lasers, microneedling.
Delegation and supervision. An RN may perform light treatments, non-ablative laser, FDA-approved neurotoxin injectables and chemical peels on a prescriber’s order with a physician or NP physically present — and is EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED from dermal fillers.
The gate that catches operators in Louisiana
Neurotoxin and filler are not the same delegation. Book them into the same RN column and a scheduling problem reads as a scope problem.
Split the menu by licence before you split it by price.
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 Louisiana as everywhere else, and they are where most exam processes actually break — not on the licence question, but on documentation nobody kept.
How Louisiana sits on structure
Corporate practice of medicine. Yes. A corporation may not practise medicine except a Professional Medical Corporation owned and governed exclusively by physicians.
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 Louisiana for the structure side.
What MDside provides in Louisiana
- Louisiana-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 Louisiana, matched to the services actually on your menu.
- A named Louisiana 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 Louisiana and any other state you operate in. The review is free and you are not obliged to use us for the fix.
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Frequently asked questions
Who can perform a good faith exam in Louisiana?
A PRE-TREATMENT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION BY THE PHYSICIAN, with the prescriber physically present on the premises.
Can the exam be done by telehealth in Louisiana?
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 Louisiana require a physician medical director?
MD or DO. Physicians alone delegate the medical acts — neurotoxin, fillers, lasers, microneedling.
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 Louisiana: LSBME Rule § 7911; LSBME Statement of Position on the corporate practice of medicine. Last reviewed 2026-09-03. Corrections are welcome and get made: contact us.
General information about good faith exams and practice structure in Louisiana, not legal advice. Requirements differ by state and change often. Confirm your obligations with healthcare counsel licensed in Louisiana.