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China's Psychiatric Hospitals Caught in Insurance Scam

2/14/2026

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Central China psychiatric hospitals are implicated in a scam defrauding public medical insurance by enrolling healthy people as patients.
An undercover Beijing News report shows privately run facilities in Xiangyang, Hubei, enroll healthy people who receive little treatment.
The facilities lure people with promises of free hospitalization and living costs.
Once admitted, they become revenue sources for hospitals that exploit personal data and fabricate treatments to siphon insurance funds.

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Story summary

Central China psychiatric hospitals are implicated in a scam defrauding public medical insurance by enrolling healthy people as patients.
An undercover Beijing News report shows privately run facilities in Xiangyang, Hubei, enroll healthy people who receive little treatment.
The facilities lure people with promises of free hospitalization and living costs.
Once admitted, they become revenue sources for hospitals that exploit personal data and fabricate treatments to siphon insurance funds.