68 practitioners at 23 clinics in Victoria, 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 Victoria — not every clinic in it. Openings are read from each clinic’s booking system into a regularly refreshed index rather than live, so confirm before you travel.
Every calendar we can read in Victoria is full for the rest of today. Cancellations are where most short-notice appointments come from, so an alert usually beats refreshing.
12 of the 68 practitioners we hold in Victoria, ordered by who is free soonest — never by what anyone paid us. 56 practitioners have an opening in the next 30 days.
Local context
Ailio holds 68 practitioners across 23 clinics in Victoria, which is what makes comparing them worth doing at all. Half of the listed prices sit between $100 and $145, but the lengths behind them differ — $0.01 · 1 hr and $400 · 1 hr 30 min are usually not the same treatment for a different price, they are different treatments.
The median listed price is $125, taken from 326 priced services at 24 clinics in Victoria. Half of them fall between $100 and $145. 212 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 25 clinics we can currently check in Victoria. Cancellations are where most short-notice appointments come from, so an alert is usually a better bet than refreshing.
5 clinics of the 42 clinics whose billing page we have read in Victoria state they submit a claim for you. Public funders named most often: ICBC (1), Veterans Affairs (1), RCMP / Canadian Forces (1) — those pay the clinic instead of you. Patient plans named most often: Extended health plans (4) — 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 $145. From 326 priced services at 24 clinics; 212 other services here publish no price at all. Lengths differ between these, so compare the price ladder below rather than thisspread alone.
Nothing is left today in the calendars of the 25 clinics we can currently check. Later this week is a different question — the timetable has it.
Median of the clinics’ own published fee schedules, at the treatment lengths they actually sell. 8 other lengths not shown. Ailio takes no cut and never marks a price up.
5 clinics of the 42 clinics whose billing page we have read in Victoria say they submit the claim for you.
We also index 44 other cities in BC, 218 clinics between them. That is not enough to publish a provincial median against — so rather than compute one, here is what we actually hold.
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