http://www.mass.gov/ocabr/docs/dpl/boards/et/lic-req-for-laser-hair-removal.pdf
MA administrative code allows for use of laser acupuncture by acupuncturists. Non-Ablative and Non-Laser Sources Device Use
http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eohhs2terminal&L=7&L0=H ome&L1=Provider&L2=Certification%2C+Licensure%2C+an d+Registration&L3=Occupational+and+Professional&L4=Nur sing&L5=Nursing+Practice&L6=Advisory+Rulings+on+Nursi ng+Practice&sid=Eeohhs2&b=terminalcontent&f=dph_quality _boards_nursing_p_laser_hair_remove&csid=Eeohhs2
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL SPA TASK FORCE ESTABLISHED BY CHAPTER 81 OF THE ACTS OF 2006
http://www.mass.gov/Eeohhs2/docs/borim/med_spa_task_force_report.doc
Board of Registration in Medicine
https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2017/10/23/243cmr2.pdf
The Code of MA Regulations, 243 CMR 2.00 allows a physician to permit a skilled professional or non-professional assistant to perform services in a manner consistent with accepted medical standards and appropriate to the assistant’s skill.
https://malegislature.gov/Bills/187/S1140/Senate/Bill/Text
2012 MA SB 1140 would allow physicians, physician assistants, nurses, electrologist and advanced aestheticians to remove hair from the human body using laser devices or other light-based devices. 2012 MA SB 1112 would define “surgery” as structurally altering the human body by the incision or destruction of tissues or the diagnostic or therapeutic treatment of conditions or disease processes by instruments causing localized alteration or transposition of live human tissue; including lasers, ultrasound, ionizing radiation, scalpels, probes and needles.
