7 practitioners at 4 clinics in Castlegar, offering physiotherapy, 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 4 clinics in Castlegar, which is what makes comparing them worth doing at all. Half of the listed prices sit between $98 and $167.50, but the lengths behind them differ — $73 · 30 min and $190 · 1 hr are usually not the same treatment for a different price, they are different treatments.
Half of the listed prices fall between $98 and $167.50. From 7 priced services at 2 clinics; 75 other services here publish no price at all. Lengths differ between these, so compare the price ladder below rather than this spread alone.
The median listed price is $128, taken from 7 priced services at 2 clinics in Castlegar. Half of them fall between $98 and $167.50. 75 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.
Physiotherapy is not generally covered by MSP. MSP’s supplementary benefits pay a set amount per visit toward a limited number of visits a year for patients receiving premium assistance; hospital-based and some publicly funded outpatient programs are separate from private clinics entirely. Otherwise it is paid by the patient and claimed on an extended-health plan, or billed to ICBC or WorkSafeBC where a claim has been approved.
No. Physiotherapists in British Columbia are direct-access practitioners and you can book without a doctor’s referral. Your own extended-health plan may still require one before it reimburses, and ICBC and WorkSafeBC treatment depends on an open claim — ask your insurer before your first visit rather than after it.
Not today. Nothing is left in the calendars of the 6 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.
3 clinics of the 6 clinics whose billing page we have read in Castlegar state they submit a claim for you. Public funders named most often: ICBC (3) — those pay the clinic instead of you. 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.
Every calendar we can read in Castlegar is full for the rest of today, and we hold nothing in the next 30 days either. Cancellations are where most short-notice appointments come from, so an alert usually beats refreshing.
All 7 practitioners we hold in Castlegar, ordered by who is free soonest — never by what anyone paid us. 0 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.
No openings in the next 2 days.
No openings in the next 2 days.
No openings in the next 2 days.
No openings in the next 2 days.
No openings in the next 2 days.
Nothing is left today in the calendars of the 6 clinics we can currently check. Later this week is a different question — the timetable has it.
