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Ton said he was quite flexible when billing insurance companies. >> it all depended on the amount the insurance company was willing to pay. it could be anywhere from $1500 to $16,000 per procedure. >> as much as $16,000 per procedure, 15 to 20 procedures a week. >> correct. >> in a good week, how much money do you think he took in? >> i do know that at one point for the entire business he was bringing in about $1 million a month. >> even a man with expensive taste, such as mark weinberger, could...

When billing insurance companies. >> it all depended on the amount the insurance company was willing to pay. it could be anywhere from $1500 to $16,000 per procedure. >> as much as $16,000 per procedure, 15 to 20 procedures a week. >> correct. >> in a good week, how much money do you think he took in? >> i do know that at one point for the entire business he was bringing in about $1 million a month. >> even a man with expensive taste, such as mark weinberger, could live large on a cash flow like...

>> after the surgery, she never again complained about the sinuses. "vanity fair" writer buzz bissinger says that defense fits in perfectly with what hes learned about mark weinberger. i believe he thinks all of the surgery he did was necessary. >> weinbergers lawyer had witnesses that said phyllis barnes cancer was probably not even detectible when she first visited dr. weinberger. in fact, other professionals such as the emergency room doctors who had seen phyllis barnes at the same time had f...

Courmayeurs very own international man of mystery, had he not walked into that grocery store one night and struck up a conversation with a woman behind the register. that is where our story takes another fateful turn because it was in that moment that the rich american proceeded to make a mistake that has proved the undoing of men ever since adam accepted that apple from eve. the man who called himself mark stern was about to fall in love. for more than two years, mark weinberger walked the st...

>> after returning to courmayeur, monica says mark stern told her he had been inspired by that night on the mountain and wanted to spend a whole year at a high altitude in a tent alone. >> he wanted to write a book, how to survive above -- >> 6,000 feet. >> exactly. for an entire year. >> that september monica says mark set up and equipped three separate campsites in the mountains above courmayeur. >> really beautiful. really beautiful. >> she says he told her that after publishing that book he ...

How to survive above -- >> 6,000 feet. >> exactly. for an entire year. >> that september monica says mark set up and equipped three separate campsites in the mountains above courmayeur. >> really beautiful. really beautiful. >> she says he told her that after publishing that book he was writing they would move to switzerland together and perhaps adopt children. >> this is my little city i started building. >> and so, as the temperatures dropped in the fall of 2009 and the snow came, the man moni...

American proceeded to make a mistake that has proved the undoing of men ever since adam accepted that apple from eve. the man who called himself mark stern was about to fall in love. mark weinberger walked the streets of europe safe in the anonymity of crowds. according to "vanity fair" writer buzz bissinger, he cut away people from the past, anyone who knew his name with the cool detachment of a surgeon. >> i think its im rejecting everything i had in the past. maybe you dont like your wife or ...

150 times, on the advice of counsel, im asserting my fifth amendment privilege not to answer the question. after that it deposition was played for the court, weinbergers attorney began his defense by admitting mark weinberger is probably not a likeable guy. but that he told the jury is beside the point. this case, he says, is about one thing and one thing only. dr. weinbergers treatment of phyllis barnes. james ho was the attorney hired by weinbergers malpractice insurer to defend him. ho did no...

Could live large on a cash flow like that. and according to writer buzz bissinger, he did. at home, there were uniformed maids, a personal trainer and masseuse. >> he would go on these spending sprees. he lived in a $2.5 million condominium. he had three drivers on call by limo. >> who could have known in those first blissful days, as the music played and champagne flowed, how it would all end. certainly not mark weinbergers new bride michelle. >> a northwest indiana doctor is apparently on the ...

Narrator: even a man with expensive taste, such as mark weinberger, could live large on a cash flow like that. and according to writer buzz bissinger, he did. at home, there were uniformed maids, a personal trainer, and a masseuse. he would go on these spending sprees, he lived in a $2-1/2 million condominium. he had three drivers on call by limo. narrator: who could have known in those first blissful days, as the music played and champagne flowed, how it would all end? certainly, not mark weinb...