Three variables decide your number, and none of them is knowable from a web page. This page explains what they are so that the figure you eventually get makes sense rather than arriving as a surprise.
First, how many sessions your course needs. Second, whether a given visit is billed as a consultation or as a procedure, which are not the same thing at all. Third, what your own plan pays toward each of those two. Multiply three unknowns together and you get exactly the spread of figures you see online.
Session count is the largest of the three by some distance, because a banding session generally treats one hemorrhoid column and most people turn out to have more than one involved. How many sessions explains how that gets estimated at the examination itself.
The billing distinction is the one people are least ready for, and the plan question is the one that varies most between two people having the identical procedure. Insurance and coverage and paying without insurance take those two in turn.
Montreal pricing
Getting your figure
From enquiry to your Montreal number
Symptoms and plan
Tell us what the symptoms are and send your plan details. Nothing is quoted before someone has read both.
Coverage confirmed
We check what your plan pays toward a consultation and toward a procedure, and where your deductible sits.
Examined and counted
The anoscopy establishes how many columns are involved, which is what sets the expected session count.
Written, then booked
You get a figure covering the expected course, split by consultation and procedure, before anything is booked.
Who publishes figures
Why the pages quoting one price are not clinics
Searching for what this costs turns up a particular kind of page: the same article about hemorrhoid surgery costs duplicated across unrelated domains, query-string URLs, and referral sites that make money on the click rather than on the treatment. Very few of the top results are clinics.
Which goes a long way to explaining the spread. The sourced figures found while researching this site ranged across a factor of five for the same procedure, across different currencies and different health systems, mostly from pages with no clinical relationship to anybody at all.
So quoting one of them here would mean picking whichever happened to be most flattering and presenting it as information. Choosing a clinic covers the published claims worth being wary of, in office against surgery covers the choice that actually moves the number, and the evidence guide covers the same problem with success rates.
Session countBiggest variable
NoneFigure published here
AlwaysQuoted before booking
The rest of it
The other Montreal cost pages
Each of the three variables in its own right, plus the procedure comparison that moves the number most.
What people ask about money before they are willing to book an examination at all.
Because three variables decide it and none is knowable before an examination. A figure here would be a guess dressed up as information, and the figures already online disagree by a factor of five.
Not honestly, before the two things that matter most are known: how many columns are involved and what your plan pays. Send your plan details and we will do the arithmetic properly.
Session count, by some distance. A banding session generally treats one hemorrhoid column, and most people have more than one involved, so the count does most of the work on the total.
Usually, because the examination is what decides whether a procedure is appropriate at all. You are told how the visit will be billed when you book it rather than afterwards.
Most of them come from referral sites and duplicated articles rather than clinics, and several are in different currencies and health systems. They are not a useful guide to your number.
Before anything is booked. The coverage check happens first and the session count comes from the examination, and you get the written figure covering the expected course.
What it costs
Why the number is calculated, not quoted
Three variables
Session count, how a visit is billed, and what your plan pays. All three are needed before a figure means anything.
Mostly not clinics
The pages quoting a single price are largely referral sites and duplicated articles rather than anyone who treats patients.
A factor of five
The sourced figures for the same procedure spanned that range, across different currencies and health systems.
Written before booking
You get a figure covering the expected course, split by consultation and procedure, before committing.
Send the symptoms and your plan details. The coverage check happens before the appointment and the session count comes from the examination, and then you have your number.
