MDAC

What MDAC does

MDAC (Multiple Disciplinary Assessments Center) is a Canadian medico-legal assessment firm founded in April 1993 and headquartered at 1550 Enterprise Road, Suite 100, Mississauga, Ontario. It operates as an operating entity of Cira Health Solutions within the SCM Group of Companies. The firm provides independent medical assessments, functional capacity evaluations, catastrophic impairment determinations, disability assessments, life care planning, vocational assessments, and litigation support services to property and casualty insurers, personal injury law firms, and healthcare providers across Ontario.

The firm's core technical methodology is a controlled-clinic Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) protocol — a graded, consecutive series of measured physical tasks producing impartial, reproducible results — supplemented by Physical Demands Analysis, multi-disciplinary assessments combining physical, cognitive, and psychological evaluations, and standardized instruments including the American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (4th edition, 1993), the Glasgow Coma Scale, and the Glasgow Outcome Scale. Catastrophic impairment determinations are applied using SABS (Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule) physical, functional (55% whole person impairment), and stabilization criteria. The firm holds CARF International accreditation.

MDAC's business model is professional services revenue on a project-based, quote-priced basis. Referrals are submitted via email ([email protected]), toll-free phone (1-877-563-2437), or local lines. Pricing varies by assessment type and complexity; late cancellations within five business days incur a 70% fee, and clients more than 15 minutes late may still be billed for the full time. Customer acquisition is sales-led through direct referrals, professional networks (e.g., Canadian Society of Medical Evaluators board positions), and the company's professional website. No public financials, funding history, or M&A activity are disclosed.

Name

MDAC

Legal name

Multiple Disciplinary Assessment Centre (MDAC)

Website

https://mdacentre.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

MDAC is a Canadian medico-legal assessment firm providing independent medical evaluations, functional capacity testing, catastrophic impairment determinations, life care planning, and litigation support to insurers, law firms, and healthcare providers across Ontario.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Mississauga

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Medical/Legal Assessment Services: Professional services revenue generated through providing independent medical assessments, functional capacity evaluations, catastrophic assessments, disability assessments, and multi-disciplinary evaluations to insurance companies and legal professionals. Services include insurer examinations, expert medical evaluations, and litigation support. Revenue is project-based, tied to individual assessment engagements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

MDAC provides independent medico-legal assessment services to insurance companies, law firms, and healthcare providers, including Functional Capacity Evaluations (FCE), Catastrophic and Disability Assessments, Independent Medical Evaluations, Life Care Plans, Vocational Assessments, and Litigation Support. Services are delivered by a multi-disciplinary team of senior assessors applying SABS criteria and AMA Guides to produce defensible, court-ready medical opinions for claims determination and damages quantification.

Product overview

MDAC (Multiple Disciplinary Assessments Center) is a medico-legal solutions provider offering a comprehensive suite of medical assessment services. The company operates as an operating entity of Cira Health Solutions and provides defensible medical assessments and litigation support. The service portfolio includes: Insurer Examinations (Catastrophic Assessments, Disability Assessments, Med-Rehab Assessments, Paper Assessments); Serious Injury Specialists services (Discharge Planning, Home Safety/Accessibility Assessments, Attendant Care Assessments, Biomechanical Medical Assessments, Functional and Cognitive Capacity Assessments); Litigation Support (Medical File Reviews, Treatment Plan Reviews, Life Care Plan Critiques); Independent Medical Assessments (Serious Injury, Catastrophic, Medical Malpractice, Disability); Life Care Plans (Health and Independence Forecast, Full Life Care Plan with complimentary valuation); and Vocational Services (Job Site Assessments, Vocational Assessments, Transferrable Skills Analysis, Psychovocational Assessments, Loss of Earning Assessment). MDAC was founded in April 1993 and has 30+ years of professional experience in disability assessment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Insurer Examinations

Quantifiable outcome

• Graded and consecutive series of measured physical tasks provide impartial, reproducible results for meaningful analysis of real-life capabilities

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Cira Health Solutions (Operating Entity)coreOthersMDAC is an operating entity of Cira Health Solutions. The parent company provides the organizational infrastructure and brand framework under which MDAC operates its multi-disciplinary assessment services.
• SCM Group of CompaniesminorOthersMDAC/Cira Health Solutions is part of the SCM Group of Companies, which includes privacy policy and accessibility resources shared across the corporate family.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Lexamed: Lexamed is a Canadian provider of independent medical examinations (IMEs) and medico-legal assessment services serving insurance companies and legal professionals across multiple provinces. It is a direct peer to MDAC given its overlapping service scope in insurer examinations, catastrophic assessments, and litigation-support oriented medical evaluations in the Canadian market.

Broad incumbents

• Centric Health: Centric Health is a Canadian healthcare services company that has historically operated independent medical examination and assessment service lines serving insurers and legal professionals. It is a broad incumbent peer given its comparable role as a multi-service assessment provider to the Ontario P&C and PI markets that MDAC also serves.
• CBI Health Group: CBI Health Group is one of Canada's largest rehabilitation and health services networks, offering assessments, vocational rehab, and disability management across many provinces. It is a broad incumbent peer to MDAC given its overlap in functional capacity evaluations, vocational assessments, and insurer/law-firm referral channels, though at significantly larger scale and geographic footprint.
• Cira Health Solutions: Cira Health Solutions is MDAC's parent operating company and a broader Canadian healthcare services platform offering related clinical and assessment services. It is comparable as the umbrella entity within which MDAC operates, with potential overlapping service lines and shared patient/client relationships across the broader Cira portfolio.

Emerging players

• Cloud DX: Cloud DX is a Canadian digital health company offering connected care and remote assessment technology that supports clinical evaluation workflows, including in rehabilitation contexts. It is an emerging-player peer to MDAC because it represents the digital/virtual assessment direction that could complement or, over time, partially substitute parts of MDAC's traditional in-clinic assessment workflow.

Regional players

• Medisys Health Group: Medisys Health Group provides executive health, preventative health, and corporate health services in Canada, including assessment components used by insurers and employers. It is a comparable peer to MDAC in the Canadian health-assessment space, though its center of gravity is preventive/executive medicine rather than medico-legal catastrophic assessment.
• WCB Ontario (Workplace Safety and Insurance Board) Health Clinics: WSIB operates internal assessment and treatment programs in Ontario for workplace injury claims, performing functional and vocational assessments analogous to MDAC's services. It is a regional peer in that it is a major Ontario-based assessment buyer/competitor in the same disability and return-to-work determination space, though as a public-sector entity rather than a private professional services firm.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/multi-disciplinary-assessment-centre-inc.

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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