Discovery Health Channel New Series MFI: Medical Fraud Investigators Features True-Life Stories Of Medical Scams Begins Monday, September 26, at 10 PM (ET/PT)

'MFI: Medical Fraud Investigators' features compelling, real-life stories that show the emotional, medical and financial pain created by medical fraud. We hope 'MFI: Medical Fraud Investigators' will raise awareness of medical fraud cases and alert viewers to recognize that anyone can be a victim of these dangerous schemes.

LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) September 25, 2005 -- Every year, thousands of cases of medical fraud are reported to law enforcement agencies across the country. On September 26, at 10 PM (ET/PT), Discovery Health Channel airs MFI: Medical Fraud Investigators, a new series featuring real-life stories that profile unique crime fighters who take on fraudulent cases. The first episode is an encore presentation that originally aired in June and will be followed with all new episodes beginning Monday October 3, at 10PM (ET/PT).

Each one-hour episode profiles some of the most intense and unbelievable true-life cases of medical fraud. These frauds not only scam people for money, but also can leave their victims psychologically scarred, traumatized and sometimes dead. MFI: Medical Fraud Investigators presents real-life stories designed to raise awareness of medical fraud cases and alert viewers to recognize that anyone can be a victim of these dangerous schemes.

Medical fraud has been under the non-fiction television radar screen for a long time," stated LMNO Executive Producer Eric Schotz. The topic is extremely compelling and the cases we cover show the medical, emotional and financial pain created. In 2003 alone, the Federal government won or negotiated more than $1.8 billion in judgments and settlements in health care fraud matters."

MFI: Medical Fraud Investigators stories are told through interviews with victims, witnesses and the investigative teams from law enforcement agencies that worked each case. Dramatic re-creations, news footage and actual undercover footage are used to chronicle the crimes and the investigations undertaken to "crack" these complex cases.

Some of the cases viewers will witness include the story of a well-versed con man who poses as a world-renowned physician and offers terminally ill patients a drug cocktail he calls immustim," claiming that $40,000 and weeks of IV treatments could cure cancer, AIDS and a number of other diseases; a highly respected nurse who injected her patients with the heart stimulant epinephrine, causing cardiac arrest because she enjoyed the thrill of creating a medical emergency; and an account of a massive undercover sting operation set up by the FBI to catch illegitimate medical supply companies who were trying to convince doctors and clinics to prescribe unnecessary equipment to be billed to Medicaid.

MFI: Medical Fraud Investigators is produced by LMNO Cable Group for Discovery Health Channel. Eric Schotz, Bill Paolantonio and Ruth Rivin are executive producers. Executive Producer for Discovery Health Channel is Mark Poertner.

Discovery Health Channel takes viewers inside the fascinating and informative world of health and medicine to experience firsthand, compelling, real-life stories of medical breakthroughs and human triumphs. Currently in 59 million homes, Discovery Health Channel is the only 24-hour network and Web site (discoveryhealth.com) devoted to what matters most -- health.

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