I had a referral to see a dermatologist, but my "Consultation" visit was about 3 minutes in-n-out of the room with the physician's assistant!! How is that okay? You cannot charge for a consultation if you don't care enough to look at the lesion for longer than a second. I'm sorry, but this is not how you make a patient feel comfortable about a procedure he/she is about to get done.
I tried to get a second appointment and actually see an MD, because I thought I was being ripped off by having to pay for that short visit, but they were not helpful, so I just decided to get this procedure done elsewhere.