You may be paying for the office visit, and not really for the non-treatment or non-diagnosis. You can call the office and ask what it is you’re paying for, or if you look at the receipt they gave you, it should say it on there. It may be coded, but usually the number of the code will be listed somewhere on that receipt. If it is the office visit fee, then there’s nothing that you can really do. It’s basically paying for the time you spent there. Everybody pays for the office visit. Sometimes if you’re coming back for a recheck, to just check ears or throat or something that takes just a second to do, a doctor won’t charge, but for the first time, you pay.