AUTO INSURANCE ADVOCACY
Make your voice heard!
In Ontario’s 2024 budget, the Government requested that Ontario’s Financial Services Regulator, FSRA, conduct a review of the health service provider guidelines and frameworks. Consultations are open until November 29, 2024, and FSRA is accepting submissions on three (3) papers:
Health Service Provider Framework Review
Health Claims for Auto Insurance (HCAI) System Review
Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule (SABS) Review
We encourage members, and all physiotherapists, to make submissions directly to FSRA on the issues that are most relevant to you. Please review the documents and questions at the links above. The information is extensive, so please keep in mind that you can identify the couple issues or questions that are most important to you.
OPA is working on a response to these consultations with a focus on key priorities including reducing red tape, advocating for fair compensation, and reducing redundancy in regulation. We will publish our submission with members and on our website.
Thank you to all who submitted feedback to OPA.
OPA advocates with various stakeholders, including as a member of the Coalition of Health Professions in Auto Insurance, for physiotherapists and patients accessing auto insurance. Find out more below.
Access Auto Insurance Resources
RECENT ADVOCACY UPDATES
AUTO INSURANCE ADVOCACY UPDATE – September 5, 2024
OPA submitted a letter to the Ontario Minister of Finance on September 5, 2024, in response to the Government of Ontario’s open consultation on the proposed amendments to the Insurance Act and Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule. This letter was informed by feedback from the physiotherapy community, collected through open consultation.
AUTO COALITION MEETING UPDATE – August 14, 2024
The OPA’s CEO S. Hutchison and Project Manager A. Nikolovski met with members of the Coalition on Monday August 12 to engage in discussion around an approach to respond to the Government of Ontario’s consultation on Proposed Amendments to the Insurance Act and to Ontario Regulation 34/10 (SABS) . The Coalition highlighted discussion around auto insurance benefit optionality and coverage limits.
The OPA team is also seeking input through our Advisory Committees and members on this regulation to further inform our response.
FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF ONTARIO (FSRA) – July 17, 2024
In March, 2024 the Ontario Government requested the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) to conduct reviews of the following:
- Professional Services Guideline;
- Attendant Care Hourly Rate Guideline;
- Health Service Provider Framework; and
- Health Claims for Auto Insurance(HCAI) system
FSRA has recently reached out to OPA with a request for stakeholder engagement in consultations, to which OPA has welcomed involvement. FSRA consultations are set to begin in October 2024. Additionally, OPA leadership has applied to be a part of their new Auto Sector – Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC).
AUTO SECTOR COALITION UPDATE – May 22, 2024
On May 22, OPA attended a meeting with The Coalition of Health Professional Associations in Ontario’s Automobile Insurance Sector (“The Coalition”) to discuss recent developments in the auto sector across disciplines. The recent budget announcement requested a review of the Professional Services Guideline, the Health Service Provider Frameworks, and the HCAI system. The Coalition engaged in meaningful and action-oriented discussion around the potential for involvement in supporting next steps and implementation of long-overdue changes to the auto-sector policies, procedures, and fee schedules.
