- Who makes the treatment decision?
- What information do you want me to bring?
- What does the visit fee include if no prescription is issued?
Assumption to check
Will a facility search tell me everything?
What the facts say
As of October 3, 2026, a separate facility licence is not required for many private offices run by health professionals licensed in Arizona.
Some offices still need that licence, including those where patients stay overnight or receive general anesthesia, medicine that makes them unconscious. Dental anesthesia has a separate legal exception.
Other exceptions include certain urgent-care, abortion and pain-management clinics. The person providing care still needs the right professional licence.
Ask Arizona’s Health Department whether the office’s kind of care needs an office licence. Check the person’s licence separately.
Use the appointment to understand the plan
A useful conversation leaves you able to describe the plan without repeating a slogan. Write down anything that remains unclear.
- What condition are you treating?
- Why this medicine rather than another option?
- Who supplies it, and how does care continue after the visit?
Ask about the next conversation too
Keep follow-up on the agenda before you leave. Make room for the possibility that you will want to think before deciding.
- Who explains test results to me?
- How do I reach a clinician with a concern?
- What is the charge for another visit?
- Can I take the written plan home to review?
Open the source notes
Some private offices do not need a separate office licence. An office missing from the Health Department’s online licence list is not, for that reason alone, operating illegally.