Hospital probed for insurance fund fraud

ZHENGZHOU - The local government is investigating allegations of insurance fraud against a private hospital in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province.

The Zhengzhou Harmony Hospital is believed to have illegally acquired more than 628,000 yuan ($99,700) from 2008 to 2010 by making fraudulent clinical reports, said Shi Liang, deputy director of the Zhengzhou Medical Insurance Center.

The manager of the hospital, who has already fled to the United States, borrowed medical cards from acquaintances who were not actually patients. The manager counterfeited clinical reports, prescribed medicine for the non-existent patients and billed the city's medical insurance fund for the costs.