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Osteopathy is currently regulated in one province and actively seeking regulation in several others. This presentation will explore the critical intersections of insurance eligibility and patient safety, highlighting the education and policy gaps that enable underqualified, unregulated osteopathic practitioners to gain liability and extended health insurance. 

Though there are stringent professional liability requirements for insurance coverage, including $5,000,000 for providers involving physical contact, these are administratively sufficient, but don't adequately represent educational or practice standards. 

Practically, what this looks like in osteopathy, is a proliferation of associations whose members can ostensibly meet the administrative requirements, without having to meet national or international professional education and practice standards. Those associations and members can then be accepted by companies who provide direct billing. Ultimately, when insurance companies have easily navigated administrative requirements and minimal knowledge of how the associations accept their members, the insurance company, the profession seeking regulation, and the patient seeking care are all disadvantaged.