7 practitioners at 7 clinics in Castlegar, offering acupuncture, with the prices those clinics publish and the openings their own calendars hold. No booking fee, and Ailio never marks a price up.
This is what Ailio has found in Castlegar — not every clinic in it. Openings are read from each clinic’s booking system and kept regularly up to date rather than live, so confirm before you travel.
Local context
Ailio holds 7 practitioners across 7 clinics in Castlegar, which is what makes comparing them worth doing at all. Half of the listed prices sit between $100 and $133.75, but the lengths behind them differ — $55 · 30 min and $195 · 1 hr 30 min are usually not the same treatment for a different price, they are different treatments.
The median listed price is $122.50, taken from 30 priced services at 6 clinics in Castlegar. Half of them fall between $100 and $133.75. 45 services here publish no price at all and are not in that figure. These are the clinics' own published rates — Ailio adds no booking fee and never marks a price up.
Acupuncture is not covered by MSP for most patients. It is one of the treatments MSP’s supplementary benefits pay a set amount toward, for a limited number of visits a year, and only for patients receiving premium assistance. Otherwise it is paid by the patient and claimed on an extended-health plan where one exists.
No. Registered acupuncturists in British Columbia are direct-access practitioners and no referral is needed to book. Your own plan may still ask for one before reimbursing.
Not today. Nothing is left in the calendars of the 8 clinics we can currently check in Castlegar. Cancellations are where most short-notice appointments come from, so an alert is usually a better bet than refreshing.
4 clinics of the 8 clinics whose billing page we have read in Castlegar state they submit a claim for you. Public funders named most often: ICBC (3), WorkSafeBC (1) — those pay the clinic instead of you. Patient plans named most often: Extended health plans (1) — claiming on one of those spends your own annual maximum. These are the clinics’ own words, repeated — confirm with them before you book, because whether a particular claim goes through is between the clinic and the payer.
Half of the listed prices fall between $100 and $133.75. From 30 priced services at 6 clinics; 45 other services here publish no price at all. Lengths differ between these, so compare the price ladder below rather than this spread alone.
All 7 practitioners we hold in Castlegar, ordered by who is free soonest — never by what anyone paid us. 5 practitioners have an opening in the next 30 days. A ✓ means we matched someone to a public register. Most professions here have no public register to check, so no tick is not a missing licence.
No openings in the next 2 days.
No openings in the next 2 days.
Nothing is left today in the calendars of the 8 clinics we can currently check. Later this week is a different question — the timetable has it.
Every calendar we can read in Castlegar is full for the rest of today. The soonest we hold are 22 openings with 3 practitioners at 3 clinics, counted across the 7 practitioners on this page rather than the whole city — so there may be more. Times come straight from each clinic’s calendar and expire when they are taken.
