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    The Billion Dollar Back Surgery Scam: Patients in Pain and Peril

Documentary
42 
Jun 20, 2019
Host Alex Ferrer uncovers the secrets of the billion-dollar back surgery scheme, one of the most complex, and dangerous, schemes to defraud workers' compensation insurance in California state history.

Full Episodes

Season 2, 6 episodes

  • Season 1
  • Season 2Selected,
   
Chicago PD: Breaking The Code Of Silence,
In the second season premiere episode, Alex Ferrer interviews a whistleblower who exposed corrupt officers who stole from drug dealers and planted drugs on innocent people.
41m May 23, 2019
   
Polygamy, Power and Profits: The Case Against the Kingstons,
When a college student helps his girlfriend escape the influence of her polygamist family, he begins to suspect that they are committing massive fraud and they decide to take their evidence to the FBI.
42m May 30, 2019
   
SeaWorld: The Case Against Captivity,
John Hargrove, a former SeaWorld senior killer whale trainer, was entranced with whales ever since he first visited the theme park as a child
41m Jun 6, 2019
   
Doctors vs. Midwives/Cremation, Kickbacks and Corruption,
Host Alex Ferrer investigates the dangerous insurance fraud at IU Health/Healthnet, and another case about kickbacks at a mortuary.
42m Jun 13, 2019
   
The Billion Dollar Back Surgery Scam: Patients in Pain and Peril,
Host Alex Ferrer uncovers the secrets of the billion-dollar back surgery scheme, one of the most complex, and dangerous, schemes to defraud workers' compensation insurance in California state history.
42m Jun 20, 2019
   
Bunny's War/Opioid Lollipops,
Story about a pharmaceutical company that illegally marketed addictive opioids for treatments not approved by the Federal Drug Administration, resulting in serious danger to patients, which allegedly including a number of fatalities.
42m Jun 27, 2019
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