# mental health
Latest news and articles about mental health
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Fraud in China’s Psychiatric Wards: How Payment Rules and Weak Oversight Open the Door to Insurance Abuse
Chinese authorities are investigating multiple psychiatric hospitals for alleged large-scale insurance fraud, exposing systemic weaknesses in how mental health care is paid for and regulated. The combination of per‑day payment rules, limited objective documentation of care and fragmented oversight has created recurring opportunities for abuse, especially among private psychiatric providers.
How ‘Free’ Psychiatric Beds Became a Lucrative Fraud: Inside China’s Private Mental‑health Market
An undercover probe by New Beijing News uncovered systematic insurance fraud and abuse at private psychiatric hospitals in Hubei, where facilities recruit patients with promises of free care, fabricate diagnoses and billable treatments, and sometimes coerce or harm inpatients. The practices—paired with “fake discharge” tactics to evade audits—have siphoned public medical insurance funds and left vulnerable patients mistreated and trapped.