<prompt> Human: A few months ago, my daughter covered on my PPO insurance was admitted to a hospital in network because she dislocated her elbow nurse maids elbow is the common term. After taking her basic vitals temperature, blood pressure, a doctor came in, flexed her arm into a certain position that re-located the joint. All is well, were discharged, total time 30 minutes. No x-rays, no medication, just the doctors time. Fast forward to now, and we get two bills totaling 1,800. My insurance statement shows they made several adjustments adding and subtracting from the bill, but it came out to the same amount in the end. I emailed the hospital, and they emailed back that all of the charges are correct. How can I fight this? I understand medical care is expensive, but thats why I have insurance. Plus, I cant imagine that a general doctors time is worth 3,600 per hour. I feel like Im not using the right words and not speaking to the right people. Any help is much appreciated.Assistant: Its not the time spent that matters, its the treatment services rendered.Human: Update, in case anyone cares, and Im hijacking the top comment because I dont know how to edit my post on mobile. I called the provider and insurance. Both informed me that the charges are all legit, no further discounts or modifications will be made. There is no negotiation to be had. I see posts on this sub about people not paying medical bills, they go to collections, and settle for a fraction of the initial amount. Im not about to throw my credit away over 1,800. Im trying to do the right thing and play by the rules. Im willing to spend a few hours on the phone trying to save some money. Doesnt look like theres anything else to be done. Im going to suck it up and pay my overlords like a good peasant. Really disheartening to learn the hard way that when youve got a kid that needs medical attention and is screaming their head off, taking them to the emergency room is the WRONG decision. Add on to that when you get a 1,800 bill the most common sentiments are thats about right and duh, medical care is expensive. If it was 4k, 8k, 20k Id bet there would be the same comments. If 3,600 per hour after insurance adjustments, 4,700 before doesnt seem outrageous, there isnt anything else to say. That concludes my belly aching. Thank you all for your responses.  <response>: It sucks that your insurance wont cover more of the expense, but youre really trying to avoid acknowledging the reality of your situation. That Dr doesnt earn anything near 3.6khr. You paid for hospital expenses kitchen, cleaners, operating theatres, meds in the cupboards, accreditation, utilities, pathology labs, imaging services.... You paid for the training, insurance, registration of the doctor and the nursing staff who saw your daughter. You paid for the time they spent at uni while they were unpaid and undertaking debts to learn the skills which allowed them to treat your daughter, whether she came in with a pulled elbow or with trauma from a car accident. Going to the ER was only the wrong decision if you think fixing your daughters arm is worth less than 1800. 