Another pain physician is under government scrutiny:

Cheek said she has treated pain for the past six years and for three of those years has used multidisciplinary techniques such as psychiatric counseling and “cleansing,” a procedure that removes toxins from the body.

When she asked insurance companies about how to bill some of those treatments, Cheek said, she was told to simply do it the best way she could, and see what happened. She said she has only billed insurance or state and federal health care programs for evaluation and management of the related health problem, physical therapy, electrical therapy and hypnosis.

Cheek said it is her opinion that the whole coding system is unaccommodating to alternative medicine specialists.

“I have to be true to the science more than I have to be true to the government,” she said . . .

. . . Cheek said she does prescribe Schedule II painkillers such as OxyContin and methadone, and her two nurse practitioners cannot prescribe pain medication so she signs their prescriptions for them. She added that it probably looks on record as though she prescribes three times what a normal doctor would prescribe.