Crefito-8

Name

Crefito-8

Legal name

Conselho Regional de Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional da 8ª Região

Website

https://crefito8.gov.br

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Healthcare Regulation

NAICS

Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors (92615)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Credential, Education & Professional License Verification (BPAKAEAI)

Keywords

• Professional regulatory council
• Physiotherapy licensing
• Occupational therapy registration
• Professional certification
• Healthcare professional regulation

Headquarters

HQ city

Curitiba

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Annual fees (Anuidades): CREFITO-8 charges annual fees to registered physiotherapists and occupational therapists for maintenance of their professional registration.
2. Service fees (Taxas): Fees for services including first-time registration, specialty certification, apostilamento (endorsement), duplicate ID cards, address updates, company registration, and other administrative services.
3. Apostilamento fees: Fees for endorsement of specialized techniques such as botulinum toxin, ultrasonic hidrolipoclasia, intradermotherapy, transcranial stimulation, and name change endorsements. Fee of R$ 34.50 for 2nd ID card via apostilamento.
4. Specialty certification fees: Fees for specialty title registration, including R$ 31.00 for 2nd ID card issuance after specialty certification exam.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

CREFITO-8 is the official regional regulatory council for physiotherapists and occupational therapists in Brazil's 8th Region (state of Paraná). It provides mandatory professional registration, specialty certification, apostilamento (endorsement) of specialized techniques such as botulinum toxin and transcranial stimulation, clinic and company registration, CADI regularity certificates, digital professional ID cards, and technical advisory services (ATP) under the federal oversight of COFFITO.

Product overview

CREFITO-8 operates as a digital government services portal providing regulatory and administrative services to physiotherapists and occupational therapists in the 8th region (Paraná, Brazil). The primary offering is the Portal de Serviços Online, a unified platform through which registered professionals access core services including professional registration and updates, specialty credentialing (Registro de Especialização), technique endorsements (Apostilamento), clinic and company registration management, and certificate issuance (CADI). Supporting services include the ATP (Assessoria Técnica ao Profissional) technical advisory service and digital identification tools. All services are interconnected within the same digital infrastructure, enabling professionals to manage their complete regulatory lifecycle from initial registration through specialty qualifications and ongoing compliance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Portal de Serviços Online CREFITO-8

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• COFFITO (Conselho Federal de Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCOFFITO is the national regulatory council that sets standards, resolutions, and policies for physiotherapy and occupational therapy throughout Brazil. CREFITO-8 operates as the regional implementation body of COFFITO in the 8th region (Paraná). All specialty certifications, apostilamento approvals, and professional standards administered by CREFITO-8 require COFFITO's framework and/or direct approval for final registration.

Scale indicators1 record

Regional players

• Conselho Regional de Odontologia de São Paulo (CROSP): Regional professional regulatory council for dentists in São Paulo, structurally analogous to CREFITO-8 — same legal architecture (Conselho Regional under federal parent), same service portfolio (registration, specialty, ethics), same annual-fee revenue model, but for a different profession and geography.
• Conselho Regional de Medicina do Estado de São Paulo (CREMESP): Regional medical regulatory council in São Paulo. Operates the same Conselho Regional model, with comparable regulatory authority, fee structure, and digital service portals for a different healthcare profession.
• Conselho Regional de Enfermagem de São Paulo (COREN-SP): Nursing regulatory council in São Paulo. Same Conselho Regional architecture and service portfolio as CREFITO-8 (registration, specialty, technique endorsements, fiscalização), differing only by profession and state.

Broad incumbents

• Conselho Federal de Medicina (CFM): Brazilian federal medical council, the parent body of CREMESP and other regional medical councils. Structurally analogous to COFFITO and provides the federal-tier counterpart of CREFITO-8's regulatory chain.
• Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC, UK): UK statutory regulator for 15 health and care professions including physiotherapists and occupational therapists. Comparable in mandate (registration, renewal, fitness-to-practice, specialty standards), governance structure, and digital service delivery — but for a different geography.
• COFFITO (Conselho Federal de Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional): Federal parent council of the CREFITO system. Comparable because it sets the standards and resolutions that CREFITO-8 implements, and provides the higher-tier regulatory counterpart to regional registration and specialty authority.

Direct peers

• CREFITO-3 (Conselho Regional de Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional da 3ª Região): Another regional CREFITO council covering Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais. Same statutory authority, product set, and revenue model as CREFITO-8, differing only by state jurisdiction.
• CREFITO-1 (Conselho Regional de Fisioterapia e Terapia Ocupacional da 1ª Região): The São Paulo-based sister regional council of the same CREFITO system. Operates with the identical mandate, service portfolio (registration, specialty cert, apostilamento, CADI), and COFFITO oversight, making it the most directly comparable peer to CREFITO-8.

Emerging players

• American Physical Therapy Association (APTA): US national professional association for physical therapists. Comparable in setting professional standards, certifying specialties, and serving as the registration/lifecycle reference point, though it operates as a membership body rather than a statutory regulator.

Others

• World Physiotherapy (WCPT): International confederation for physiotherapy, of which COFFITO/CREFITO-8 are indirectly part of through Brazil's member organization. Comparable as the global standards-setter that influences specialty and technique endorsement frameworks CREFITO-8 administers.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCjSi95ZWdRcTxQuZonheEUA
• Facebookfacebook.com/Crefito8pr
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/crefito-8

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