The short answer for Wisconsin. Physician or an authorised licensee. A physician using telemedicine to diagnose or treat a patient located in Wisconsin must be licensed by the Medical Examining Board.
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 Wisconsin against primary sources, and says so plainly where a question is unsettled.
Who may perform the good faith exam in Wisconsin
Physician or an authorised licensee. A physician using telemedicine to diagnose or treat a patient located in Wisconsin must be licensed by the Medical Examining Board.
Medical director. A Wisconsin-licensed physician. No person may practise medicine and surgery in Wisconsin without a licence from the Medical Examining Board.
Delegation and supervision. NP and PA within scope under the applicable arrangement; RN within scope on a valid order.
The gate that catches operators in Wisconsin
The automatic conversion provision: if all shareholders cease at any one time and for any reason to be licensed in the field the corporation was organised for, the service corporation is converted into a business corporation by operation of law.
Wisconsin names CONTROL as well as ownership, which reaches arrangements that keep the share register clean but move the decisions.
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 Wisconsin as everywhere else, and they are where most exam processes actually break — not on the licence question, but on documentation nobody kept.
How Wisconsin sits on structure
Corporate practice of medicine. Yes. Every shareholder, director and officer must be licensed in the same field, or be a health care professional — at all times, not just at formation.
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 Wisconsin for the structure side.
What MDside provides in Wisconsin
- Wisconsin-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 Wisconsin, matched to the services actually on your menu.
- A named Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin?
Physician or an authorised licensee. A physician using telemedicine to diagnose or treat a patient located in Wisconsin must be licensed by the Medical Examining Board.
Can the exam be done by telehealth in Wisconsin?
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 Wisconsin require a physician medical director?
A Wisconsin-licensed physician. No person may practise medicine and surgery in Wisconsin without a licence from the Medical Examining Board.
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 Wisconsin: Wis. Stat. § 180.1901(2); Wis. Stat. § 448.03; Wis. Admin. Code ch. Med 24; Wis. Stat. ch. 766. Last reviewed 2026-09-03. Corrections are welcome and get made: contact us.
General information about good faith exams and practice structure in Wisconsin, not legal advice. Requirements differ by state and change often. Confirm your obligations with healthcare counsel licensed in Wisconsin.