Everything you need to run
a compliant IV business.
Practical, no-nonsense guides for starting and growing a mobile IV therapy business the right way — from medical direction to Good Faith Exams to HIPAA.
How to start a mobile IV therapy business
The complete step-by-step guide: business structure, medical director, scope of practice, Good Faith Exams, insurance, pharmacy sourcing, and HIPAA — in the order a serious operator should tackle them.
Read the guide → ComplianceDo you need a medical director for IV therapy?
The straight answer, plus what a medical director actually does, whether it has to be a physician (and where an NP can fill the role), what it costs, and how to find a hands-on one.
Read the guide → ComplianceGood Faith Exam requirements by state
What a Good Faith Exam is, who can perform it, telehealth rules, how requirements vary by state, what's at stake if it's missing — and exactly where to find your own state's rules.
Read the guide → ComplianceIV therapy business insurance: what mobile operators actually need
Malpractice isn't enough. The three layers of a mobile exposure, the commercial auto gap most operators don't know they have, why your policy may not cover the drip you sell most of, and who actually buys the insurance — you or your tech.
Read the guide → ComplianceEmployee or independent contractor? The question mobile IV operators get wrong
"They set their own hours, so they're a 1099" is not the test. What the classification tests actually look at, why mobile IV is a hard case, where the Lowe's contractor analogy breaks, and why per diem is probably the answer.
Read the guide → OperationsWorking events: the mobile IV playbook for concerts, races, and festivals
An event is not where you sell drips — it's where you meet five hundred people who will feel terrible tomorrow. Booth posture, drink-vendor alliances, on-site GFE readiness, and the next-day play that turns a concert crowd into bookings.
Read the guide → OperationsHow to market your med spa or mobile IV therapy business
Stop asking how much to spend — ask what each channel costs when you stop feeding it. The layered playbook: free surfaces, one-time assets like your vehicle, content consistency, paid ads without budget surprises, local B2B outreach, and the retention math that decides whether any of it worked.
Read the guide → OperationsIV therapy supply chain: sourcing, stocking your techs, and surviving a shortage
Why you should never marry one supplier or compounder, the three models for stocking your techs (and the hiring decision hiding inside them), shortage-proofing lessons from the 2017 saline crisis, and the questions to ask every supplier.
Read the guide → ComplianceWhere should your GFE records live?
Outside service, your own practitioner, or both — all three models are legitimate. The question that decides inspections is whether the exam record is in the chart, visible at the door, and yours to produce in one place.
Read the guide → ComplianceTwo clocks: BUD vs. expiration dates
The manufacturer's date and the puncture clock are different rules — confusing them is how operators earn citations. What's settled, where states differ on USP 797, and what inspectors actually check.
Read the guide → ComplianceDo you need a hood for IV therapy?
What a hood actually is, when mixing becomes sterile compounding under USP 797, the three legitimate ways to run an IV menu, and where state boards genuinely disagree.
Read the guide → ComplianceMobile IV therapy in Maine: the new Chapter 15 rules, explained
The most comprehensive state IV rule in the country took effect in July 2026: no standing-order medicine, no questionnaire GFEs, no menu-driven drips, no field mixing. What's settled, what's contested, and what a compliant Maine operation looks like now — from the rule text itself.
Read the guide → ComplianceMobile IV therapy in Florida: what's settled, and what isn't
Florida's rules, honestly mapped: who can own it, why an autonomous NP still needs a physician, the paramedic question attorneys actually disagree on, the home-infusion licensing gray zone, and the Health Care Clinic Act.
Read the guide → ComplianceIV hydration business licensing: what you actually need
There's no single "IV therapy license" — it's a stack of business, professional, medical, and drug-handling credentials. The full stack, the mobile-specific wrinkles, and where to find your state's rules.
Read the guide → Buyer's GuideBest mobile IV therapy software: how to choose
The criteria that actually matter when choosing mobile IV software, the questions to ask any vendor, HIPAA and safety features to look for, and why a charting tool alone isn't enough.
Read the guide → Buyer's GuideMobile IV therapy charting: why an EMR alone isn't enough
A charting system documents the visit — but a mobile IV business also has to book, dispatch, run the GFE, take payment, and earn repeat visits. What charting-only leaves out, and what to look for instead.
Read the guide → OperationsHow to price mobile IV therapy services
Start with market research for your area, build pricing from your real costs, structure your menu, and use memberships and loyalty to turn one-time drips into recurring revenue.
Read the guide → OperationsCold chain in the field: keeping 2–8°C in a moving vehicle
A parked vehicle is the least controlled environment your product will ever see — especially during the on-call wait. The standard in plain numbers, coolers and packout, what each sensor type actually tells you, and the log that turns a drive into a record.
Read the guide → OperationsThe monthly expiry audit: two minutes that prove your operation
Expiration is the quietest failure mode in the business — nothing beeps. The two-minute monthly shelf walk: verify dates, confirm counts, pull expired, and leave a dated, append-only record you can hand across a desk.
Read the guide → OperationsYour tech is alone in a stranger's home. What's your plan?
Mobile IV is lone-worker healthcare. The five-layer safety playbook — screening, live status, scene-clock check-ins, an emergency line, and walk-away authority — that field teams deserve and safety-serious operators hire with.
Read the guide → OperationsSpeed of service: how fast booking wins and keeps customers
In mobile IV, speed wins the first booking — and the right app keeps that customer coming back. How fast service wins first-time patients and makes you their default for every visit after.
Read the guide → OperationsMemberships, loyalty, and referrals: recurring revenue that actually gets used
Memberships for regulars, loyalty rewards for semi-regulars, referral perks for growth — and the three operational cliffs where programs die: point-of-care visibility, failed payments, and forgotten cancelled members.
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