| “It’s 81 damning minutes of tight filmmaking, great storytelling and riveting investigation.” – Jacob Oller, AV Club |
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SHUFFLE is the story of thousands, if not millions of people whose lives hang in the balance of a system that needs urgent reform.”
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SXSW 2025 GRAND JURY BEST DOCUMENTARY WINNER
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| In the wake of the opioid epidemic, insurance companies are now required to cover addiction and mental health treatment at the same reimbursement rate as other medical conditions, but without any of the regulations.Shot over the course of three years, SHUFFLE follows three individuals trapped by the insurance-fueled cycle of treatment fraud spreading across the country. Their future depend not on getting into treatment, but on getting out alive. A journey of discovery and transformation, these personal stories provide the framework for a more public investigation with the help of an FBI informant, an insurance analyst and the former Executive Director of a Philadelphia-based treatment facility shuttered for fraud. SHUFFLE unravels a web of public policy and private interest preying on – and profiting from – more than 40 million Americans with addiction issues. Told through the lens of filmmaker Benjamin Flaherty’s own recovery, SHUFFLE is a character-driven look inside the billion-dollar addiction treatment industry, where clients are bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a system propelled by relapse rather than recovery. |
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