273 practitioners at 31 clinics in Victoria, offering massage therapy, 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 100 practitioners we hold in Victoria, ordered by who is free soonest — never by what anyone paid us. 96 practitioners have an opening in the next 30 days.
Local context
Ailio holds 273 practitioners across 31 clinics in Victoria, which is what makes comparing them worth doing at all. Half of the listed prices sit between $110 and $155, but the lengths behind them differ — $45 · 1 hr and $414 · 1 hr 15 min are usually not the same treatment for a different price, they are different treatments.
Massage therapy is the most widely indexed treatment on Ailio, which means the price range on this page is wide by nature: an initial assessment, a 30-minute focused treatment and a 90-minute session are all "massage", and they are not the same purchase. The length beside each price is what makes two clinics comparable.
The median listed price is $135, taken from 489 priced services at 33 clinics in Victoria. Half of them fall between $110 and $155. 311 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.
Massage therapy is not covered by MSP for most people. MSP’s supplementary benefits pay a set amount per visit toward a limited number of visits a year, and only for patients receiving premium assistance — everyone else pays the clinic’s listed price and claims it on their own extended-health plan if they have one. Treatment funded by ICBC or WorkSafeBC is different again: those bodies pay the clinic directly, so an approved claim does not spend the annual maximum on your own plan.
No. Registered massage therapists in British Columbia are direct-access practitioners, so you can book without seeing a doctor first. A referral may still be required by your own extended-health plan before it will reimburse you, and ICBC and WorkSafeBC treatment depends on an open claim rather than a referral — check with your insurer, not the clinic.
Not today. Nothing is left in the calendars of the 33 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 $110 and $155. From 489 priced services at 33 clinics; 311 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 33 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. 5 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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