Overview
- The National Healthcare Security Administration directed provincial bureaus to meet directors of all mental institutes by Sunday and organize thorough checks by March 15.
- Authorities ordered recovery of any illegally used medical insurance funds and required rectification reports to be submitted by the end of March.
- The action follows reports from Hubei of patients being locked up, including people not suffering from mental illness, to extract national insurance subsidies.
- Local accounts detailed free admissions, fabricated diagnoses and treatment charges, and strict controls that included physical abuse of patients.
- The NHSA advised provinces to use the Hubei findings as case studies to strengthen management and curb insurance fraud across the sector.