Your ENT saw a tiny fraction of that. He billed 4K. The contracted rate he got from an insurer is significantly below that. A huge chunk of that disappeared to

Your ENT saw a tiny fraction of that. He billed 4K. The contracted rate he got from an insurer is significantly below that. A huge chunk of that disappeared to malpractice insurance before he got to paying the rest of his overhead. He saw, as another poster said, maybe 15% of that.