Melody - perhaps you could make a complaint to someone about it? That was rather sneaky of them!! You should not have to fork out that amount of money.
Gabby has only been to a paed once and that was because the GP picked up on a very slight heart murmur. By the time I went to the paed, he said that the GP must have a very good ear because the murmur was so slight that he wasn't stressed about it at all. It cost about $150 but I got $100 back on medicare.
So I just assumed that paediatricians were only necessary if there were extenuating circumstances - not for regular check-ups iykwim?