David Frank

it be a problem with which David Frank, M.D., of Middletown, Pa., is all too familiar.

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A board-certified family physician specializing in sports and rehabilitative medicine, Frank is medical director of WellQuest, a collaborative health institute created last June by PinnacleHealth System of central Pennsylvania.The four-hospital health care system owns 22 family medicine practices, six of which now integrate a variety of CAM services.

We try to make it as easy for our patients as we can, Frank said.We code everything for them, give them the ICD-9 codes, the CPT codes -- everything.But we tell them it be not necessarily going to be reimbursed..