Team monitors investigation of 'insurance fraud' by hospitals

A special team led by China's top healthcare insurance chief carried out supervision in northeastern Liaoning and Jilin provinces over investigations into alleged insurance frauds by local hospitals, reported the Beijing News Thursday.

The two-day inspection and supervision led by Hu Jinglin, director of the State Medical Insurance Administration, was conducted from Tuesday to Thursday in response to report recent health insurance frauds exposed by the news media.

Two hospitals in Liaoning province were suspended as police launched investigations into suspected health insurance fraud, Xinhua reported Thursday.

Local police also detained 14 suspects related with the fraud case, according to local police.

The two hospitals, Jihua hospital in Yuhong district and the Shenyang friendship kidney disease Chinese medicine hospital in Dadong district, Sheyang, capital city of Liaoning, were first reported by CCTV on Wednesday of allegedly defrauding insurance companies via internal collision.

They were reportedly found faking patients' medical records to get health insurance money from the government-held public health insurance policy.