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For Columbus med spas, we keep SEO, Google Ads and booking page claims inside ORC 4731.22(B)(5), which bars false expectations of results.
Under Ohio Medical Board rules, applying a light-based medical device to a patient counts as practicing medicine and surgery. A physician can never hand off that work for ablative procedures. The physician may pass non-ablative skin treatments with a vascular laser to a nurse or physician assistant, but only under set conditions. Among them, the physician sees and evaluates the patient first and is on site whenever a nurse does the treatment.
So a booking page should name who performs each laser treatment, rather than selling it as a walk-in spa service. The State Medical Board of Ohio can also discipline a physician for an ad likely to create "false or unjustified expectations of favorable results." Results claims and before-and-after photos have to stay inside that line.
OhioHealth, Nationwide Children’s Hospital and Mount Carmel each had more than 8,000 full-time employees in Greater Columbus in 2024. An independent practice can compete on detail: the suburb it serves and the treatments it offers.
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