About the standard
The Charging for Uninsured Professional Services standard was last updated in September 2014 and is being reviewed to ensure relevancy. A proposed title change and other amendments are meant to highlight regulated members’ rights to compensation while emphasizing fairness and compassion for patients, and to clarify block fees and other billing topics. The addition of a preamble and list of definitions provides additional context for the standard.
What’s changed?
- Proposed title change to Block Fees & Charging for Uninsured Services to bring attention to inclusion of information relating to block fees.
- Addition of a preamble to anchor standard in related legislation and highlight ethical considerations.
- Enhanced list of definitions to provide additional context and clarity.
- Amendments provide additional information around block fees, missed appointments and conflicts of interest. These changes balance regulated members’ rights to compensation while also emphasizing fairness and compassion for patients in an effort to reduce overall confusion.
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For your convenience, the draft standard has clean and marked copies available.
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Changes to CPSA’s Standards of Practice impact your day-to-day practice. Your feedback is important to us, as it helps us develop clear, reasonable expectations and helpful, applicable resources. We appreciate the time you took and the input you provided.
CPSA regulated members, partner organizations, other healthcare professionals and Albertans were invited to provide feedback from Oct. 7 to Nov. 6, 2025.
Anonymized feedback will be considered by Council. Once amendments are finalized and approved by Council, members will be notified by email and The Messenger newsletter.
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