Greater Lafayette med spas welcome new law regulating wellness industry | Exclusive
WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — In an era of wellness trends and self-care, Indiana medical spas are preparing for new safety regulations with Senate Bill 282 scheduled to become law on Jan. 1, requiring registration and mandatory reporting to the state's Medical Licensing Board. But local doctors and nurse practitioners behind Greater Lafayette's med spas say they support the changes, given a recent incident where a woman died within an hour of being administered an IV at a local IV therapy business. According to a lawsuit, the woman's death was the result of a significant amount of air in the IV line, which traveled to her heart. The business has since closed. Rickin Shah and Marc Estes, co-owners of Pure Regenerative Medicine in West Lafayette and former emergency room doctors, said that when they opened their med spa in 2022, they were shocked by the lack of standards and regulations in their field. Running through the checklist of opening the business, which offers services such as regenerative hormone replacement therapy, facial rejuvenation, laser treatments and injectables such as Botox, Estes said he couldn't find anything in state law that governed their practice. "I remember saying, 'There must be some process that
