Public fury as China mental hospitals recruit people to impersonate patients in insurance scam

Psychiatric hospitals in Xiangyang, Hubei province, China, are under scrutiny for allegedly defrauding the public medical insurance scheme. According to a Beijing News report, these privately run institutions recruit healthy individuals to impersonate patients. These individuals are lured with promises of free room and board. The hospitals then use the "patients'" personal information to fabricate medical treatments and claim reimbursements from the medical insurance scheme. The scheme allows the hospitals to profit by exploiting the insurance system, as patients in China typically only pay a percentage of their medical bills. The recruited individuals often do not understand the full extent of the fraudulent activity.

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