Urologist billed my insurance for 30-39min visit…I was in and out of the building in 10min

This is my first time visiting my urologist on my new insurance. I didn’t previously pay attention to the billing code because on my parents insurance it was just a flat copay $30 no matter what. But my new insurance doesn’t have that we have negotiated rates so what I owe for the visit which they coded as a 30-39min established patient visit is about $200.

I’m just confused because my appointment when like this: check in, sit in waiting room 2 minutes, nurse comes and does my vitals, I sat in the room for 5min and then the urologist came in, said my x ray looks the same as last year, keep taking my prescription and come back in a year.

So she was in the room with me for less than 2 minutes, I’m in the building for 10min total. I could see if maybe it takes her and an assistant a combined 10min to very thoroughly look at an x ray before I get there so if that’s included let’s say like a combined 20min. I’m guessing there’s a noticeable price differential between different minute intervals. Do I have leverage here to argue? Or will they just tell me that there’s back end stuff that is included in the 30-39min assessment?

I’m also willing to accept that maybe I’m just wrong and it takes an incredibly look time to look at an X-ray to determine “same as last year”.

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