My daughter had an itchy eye. I took her to the doctor at a children's clinic affiliated with a well-known children's hospital. They asked for $150 upfront which I paid. The doctor came, examined her for five minutes and wrote a prescription for an allergy medicine that cost over a hundred dollars. Two weeks later we got the bill. They tacked on another $175 for moving us from one room to another. I forgot how they expressed it, but that seemed to be the reason. Over $400 and the medicine didn't really help.