{"id":765243,"date":"2026-02-15T02:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/765243\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T02:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T02:49:15","slug":"public-fury-as-china-mental-hospitals-recruit-people-to-impersonate-patients-in-insurance-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/765243\/","title":{"rendered":"Public fury as China mental hospitals recruit people to impersonate patients in insurance scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A number of psychiatric hospitals in central China have been exposed over a scam in which they lure healthy people to become patients in a bid to defraud the public medical insurance scheme.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">According to an undercover report by the Beijing News, most of the patients in such privately run psychiatric institutions in Xiangyang, Hubei province, do not show any abnormal behaviour and receive little treatment.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The healthy individuals told the newspaper that they stayed there because of a \u201cfree hospitalisation, free living costs\u201d promise on offer.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In China, patients have to bear a percentage of their medical bills; public insurance covers the rest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Many of the so-called patients, like those above, have little idea what is going on. Photo: bjnews\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/38eee8f3-e2e4-41a0-adc0-15a67bc93be8_9100469d.jpg\" title=\"Many of the so-called patients, like those above, have little idea what is going on. Photo: bjnews\"\/>Many of the so-called patients, like those above, have little idea what is going on. Photo: bjnews<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After they are admitted, they become cash cows for the hospital because the institutions use their personal information and fabricate medical treatments to swindle funds from the medical insurance scheme, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of psychiatric hospitals in central China have been exposed over a scam in which they lure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4317],"tags":[35940,45017,224310,1395,16536,224313,64766,188,224314,5205,16187,19457,87204,349,48437,33572,105,1867,224309,130695,1196,224316,25781,45416,82698,4554,3912,32505,218,6111,7400,186756,6738,146924,529,21060,65117,224306,68277,224308,34066,224307,99540,224311,126512,10741,224312,224315,98230,20090,11615,16,224305,15,6507],"class_list":["post-765243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-beat","tag-cheaper","tag-cheat","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-communicating","tag-cover","tag-crime","tag-discharged","tag-doctors","tag-equipment","tag-expert","tag-fake","tag-fraud","tag-freedom","tag-funds","tag-health","tag-hospital","tag-independently","tag-injection","tag-insurance","tag-investigating","tag-investigation","tag-jail","tag-kick","tag-medical","tag-medicine","tag-mental","tag-mental-health","tag-mobile-phone","tag-nurse","tag-nursing-home","tag-patients","tag-pipe","tag-police","tag-population","tag-posed","tag-privately-run","tag-psychiatric","tag-recruited","tag-reform","tag-relative","tag-reporter","tag-scarce","tag-scheme","tag-shanghai","tag-slap","tag-supervise","tag-swindle","tag-system","tag-treatment","tag-uk","tag-undercover","tag-united-kingdom","tag-water"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}