{"id":456022,"date":"2026-02-05T19:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456022\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T19:00:07","slug":"china-probes-mental-hospitals-over-reports-patients-are-being-locked-up-in-insurance-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/456022\/","title":{"rendered":"China probes mental hospitals over reports patients are being locked up in insurance scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China\u2019s top medical watchdog has ordered a nationwide review of the country\u2019s psychiatric institutes following media reports that multiple hospitals in central China had locked up patients \u2013 including people who were not suffering from mental illness \u2013 as part of an insurance scam.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The National Healthcare Security Administration said on Wednesday that its provincial bureaus should hold talks with directors of all psychiatric institutes in their area by Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They were also told to ensure that thorough checks into possible illegal activity were organised by March 15 and appropriate action taken.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Areas of investigation included whether institutes had caused people to be hospitalised for no good reason, faked medical conditions and treatment or forged documents.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThey should submit a report and refund any illegally used medical insurance funds,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On Tuesday, the Beijing News reported that patients in multiple psychiatric institutes in Hubei province were being exploited to skim off subsidies under the national medical insurance scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s top medical watchdog has ordered a nationwide review of the country\u2019s psychiatric institutes following media reports that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[187071,49,48,8589,84,137540,70789,393,187070,394,187068,45930,187069,187072],"class_list":{"0":"post-456022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-beijing-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-communist-party","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-hubei-province","14":"tag-medical-insurance","15":"tag-mental-health","16":"tag-mental-institutes","17":"tag-mentalhealth","18":"tag-national-healthcare-security-administration","19":"tag-peoples-daily","20":"tag-xiangyang","21":"tag-yichang"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}