North Bangalore skin and cosmetology clinics ranked on whether they publish a price before you call

Ask a North Bangalore skin or cosmetology clinic what a PRP session or a chemical peel costs, and most send back the same answer: come in for a consultation and we will tell you. That is not unreasonable for a procedure where the price depends on the area treated and how many sessions a case needs. It also means a patient comparing six clinics before picking one has almost nothing to go on except a phone call to each, since the number rarely makes it onto the clinic's own website.

What counts as a published price here

The bar is a figure that sits on the clinic's own site, reachable without a call or a form. A consultation fee counts even when procedure pricing doesn't, since it is the one number most patients can check before they ever pick up the phone. Karnataka law already has a version of this requirement, just not aimed at websites. Section 10 of the Karnataka Private Medical Establishments Act, 2007 requires a registered establishment to display a schedule of charges on its notice board and in a brochure, and forbids charging more than the figure printed there. Nothing in the Act names a website, which is exactly why the gap below exists.

Six clinics, and what sits on their own site

Chitra's Lifeline Clinic, a multispecialty polyclinic at LMN Arcade in Yelahanka New Town, runs its dermatology and cosmetology side through Dr. Bindiya, an aesthetic dermatologist and cosmetologist with more than seven years of practice and membership in IADVL, the Bangalore Dermatological Society, CDSI, and ACSI. The clinic's own site lists PRP therapy, mild to deep chemical peels, laser treatments, hair fall treatment, skin biopsy, and nail fungus treatment, alongside an in-house lab and pharmacy and online appointment booking. What the page does not carry, as of September 2026, is a rupee figure for any of it. A reader learns exactly what Dr. Bindiya treats and gets nowhere on what a first peel or PRP session costs before calling.

Oliva Skin and Hair Clinic, on 1st A Main Road in Yelahanka Satellite Town, is the one clinic in this list that publishes a number without being asked. Oliva's Yelahanka clinic page states a consultation fee of 900 rupees, printed next to the address and the daily 10am to 8pm hours. It stops there too; the page names treatments without pricing them, but a walk-in already knows what the door costs before arriving.

Kaya, the national dermatology chain, runs a dedicated Yelahanka clinic among its twelve Bangalore locations, plus a New BEL Road branch it markets to Hebbal, Malleswaram, and Rajajinagar. Kaya's Bengaluru locations page lists every address and the broad service categories, acne management, scar revision, pigmentation correction, but no consultation fee or procedure price sits anywhere on it. Scale here buys reach across North Bangalore neighbourhoods, not a number you can check before booking.

Manipal Hospitals' Hebbal campus runs its dermatology department with five named consultants, including Col. (Dr.) Aradhana Sood and Dr. Kisalay Saurav Jha, and equipment down to Fraxel laser and glycolic acid peels. Manipal Hebbal's dermatology page names every doctor and every piece of equipment in the department, but the pattern holds even at hospital scale: no per-procedure price appears, and a patient is routed to a phone number to book instead.

4 Senses Clinic, in Sahakar Nagar near Byatarayanapura, makes the boldest claim of the six without a rupee figure to go with it. 4 Senses' skin surgery page states its doctors have performed more than 10,000 such procedures to date, emphasising scarless and low-pain technique, but names no price for any of them, PRP included. A volume claim that specific invites the follow-up question of cost, and the site leaves that question for the phone.

Guruprasad Skin Clinic, opposite the Ganesh temple on MIG 1st Main Road in Yelahanka New Town, sits at the other end from Manipal entirely. It has no independent website that turned up in search; what exists is a directory listing on Justdial with an address, a phone number, and a handful of reviews. A patient choosing Guruprasad is choosing on proximity and word of mouth, since there is no clinic-owned page to check anything against.

Why the gap matters more for a first-time patient than a returning one

A returning patient already knows roughly what a session costs from the last visit. A first-time patient comparing clinics before a PRP course or a course of peels is choosing blind on price at five of these six, and the sixth only answers the consultation question, not the procedure one. That asymmetry shows up in a related pattern Magic Signal has tracked across North Bangalore practices: pages built around named symptoms and procedures get quoted by AI search more often than a generic services list, and a page with a real number on it is exactly the kind of specific detail an answer engine can pull directly into a response.

None of this means the five clinics without a published price are being evasive. A PRP course genuinely varies by how many sessions a case needs, and a peel's depth changes the number enough that a single fixed figure could mislead as easily as help. What it does mean is that a consultation fee, the one number that usually is fixed, is a low-effort thing to put on a page, and Oliva is currently the only one of the six doing it. Chitra's Lifeline Clinic has the doctor credentials and the service list to compete on substance; a published consultation fee next to Dr. Bindiya's bio would close the one gap the site currently leaves for a first-time caller to guess at.

Frequently asked questions

Q: Which North Bangalore skin clinic publishes a fee on its own site?

As of September 2026, Oliva Skin and Hair Clinic's Yelahanka page is the only one of the six checked here with a number on it: a 900 rupee consultation fee. The other five, including Kaya, Manipal Hebbal, 4 Senses, Chitra's Lifeline Clinic, and Guruprasad, list services without a price.

Q: Is a clinic breaking the law by not listing prices online?

Not necessarily. The KPME Act requires a schedule of charges on the notice board and in a brochure, not on a website. A clinic could be fully compliant offline and still show nothing online.

Q: Does a published consultation fee mean cheaper overall treatment?

No. It only tells a patient what the first visit costs. Procedure pricing, which genuinely varies by case, still requires a consultation at every clinic in this list, published fee or not.

Q: What should a first-time patient ask on the call these clinics push toward?

Ask for a per-session figure and how many sessions a typical case needs, not just a starting price. A range with a session count is far more useful for budgeting than a single low number meant to get a patient in the door.