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New Standards, Effective August 1, 2025
The following new standards have been approved by the College Board of Directors and will go into effect on August 1, 2025:
- Documentation Standard (Replaces the Record Keeping Standard)
- Funding, Fees and Billing Standard (Replaces the Fees, Billing and Accounts Standard)
These updated requirements must be followed by all physiotherapists and physiotherapist residents. Please take some time to read the new standards and ensure you’re familiar with them.
If you have any questions, our Practice Advice Team is here to help.
Like with past batches of new standards, we’ll send you another email on July 31 with the top five highlights from each.
Artificial Intelligence — Principles for Physiotherapists
We’re happy to announce new guidance for physiotherapists looking to use AI tools in their work.
Artificial Intelligence — Principles for Physiotherapists breaks down how to integrate AI tools into your practice while prioritizing patient safety and autonomy.
This guidance does not add any new rules. Instead, it highlights key expectations from existing standards and legislation, helping you apply them in the context of emerging AI technologies.
Read it today.
A Guide to Using AI Scribes: AI Principles in Practice
Looking for a practical example of how to use the College’s new guidance, Artificial Intelligence — Principles for Physiotherapists?
In this month’s blog post, we look at how the principles apply when using an AI scribe.
What should you be aware of before integrating a tool like this into your practice? Read the blog post to find out.
Read Our Latest Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Report
The College’s 2024-2025 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Report is now available.
This is our second formal EDI report – and we’re excited to share the progress we have made over the past year.
Advancing safe, welcoming, and equitable physiotherapy care requires that we acknowledge and address direct and systemic discrimination within our health systems and broader communities.
We continue to approach this work with humility and an understanding that we are at the beginning of a long journey.
Case of the Month: Consent and Communication Count When Working with PTAs
Physiotherapists need to get a patient’s consent to involve a physiotherapist assistant in their care.
The physiotherapist assistant’s name and title must also appear on invoices.
In a new case of the month, we look at what happens when these requirements aren’t met and patient care suffers.
Consultations Now Open: Supervision Standard
We’re looking for feedback on a new proposed Supervision Standard.
This standard would combine two current standards – the Working With Physiotherapist Assistants Standard and the Supervision Standard.
View the draft standard and share your thoughts at the link below.
Consultations close August 23, 2025.
Featured Standard: Funding, Fees and Billing
This standard will come into effect on August 1, 2025, replacing the Fees, Billing and Accounts Standard.
It requires physiotherapists ensure that the fees charged for physiotherapy services and products are transparent, justifiable, and not excessive, to enable patients to make informed choices.
Top five highlights from the Funding, Fees and Billing Standard:
1. Be Transparent About Fees Upfront
Before providing physiotherapy services, give patients a clear and complete fee schedule that outlines all potential charges, including fees for providing reports, cancellation or late fees, and refund policies. Explain fees and billing processes and policies to patients in a way they can understand.
2. Ensure All Charges Are Accurate and Justifiable
Set fees that are reasonable and aligned with relevant legislation. Don’t depart from your fee schedule unless it’s to reduce a fee. Regularly review your billing practices to confirm that they are fair and accurate.
3. Issue Clear and Transparent Receipts
Receipts and invoices must be transparent, provided in a timely manner, and include the name of the care provider, dates of service, fees charged, and terms of payment. Non-physiotherapy services must not be labeled as physiotherapy.
4. Use Caution With Bundled Fees
Before accepting pre-payment or offering bundled service packages, implement safeguards like allowing patients to purchase one service at a time, issuing receipts only after services are delivered, and providing refunds for unused services.
5. Take Accountability for Your Billing Practices
You are responsible for all billing under your registration number. Promptly correct any billing errors, document any billing issues and their resolution, and make reasonable efforts to resolve billing disputes.
Make sure you’ve reviewed the full Funding, Fees and Billing Standard.
Myth vs Fact
Physiotherapists must have a process in place to review their billing.
Is this a myth or a fact?
Practice Advice Question
Who is responsible for making sure patients clearly understand the fees of their physiotherapy care?
Paid Opportunity: Become An Examiner for the Ontario Clinical Exam
We’re hiring physiotherapists to work as examiners for the Ontario Clinical Exam.
This is a great opportunity for physiotherapists with at least three years experience in the Independent Practice Class to give back to the profession and get paid doing it.
Highlights:
- Work from home
- Get paid $65/hour for examining candidates and $54/hour for training activities
- Commit to being available for at least three exam weekends between October 2025 and October 2026
Curious about what it’s like to be an examiner?
Hear from two examiners in our blog post, Being an Examiner: An Important and Rewarding Role.
Be Part of a Paid Pilot for CAPR’s New Canadian Physiotherapy Examination
The Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators is recruiting newly registered physiotherapists to participate in a pilot of the new Canadian Physiotherapy Examination.
This is an opportunity to:
- Contribute to the development of a fair, modern, and effective licensure exam
- Help ensure that future physiotherapists are ready to provide safe, independent, competent care
- Add a meaningful professional experience to your resumé
- Get compensated for your time
Welcome New Registrants
The College would like to welcome our newly registered physiotherapists.
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