Health Fraud Informants to Be Rewarded

4 | Monday, December 17, 2018 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY CHINA Striking Health fraud poses Guests learn traditional Chinese dance poses under the instruction of professional dancers at a informants to cultural center in Beijing’s Haidian district on Satur day. The choreography was inspired by routines performed during the Han (206 BCAD 220) and be rewarded Tang (618907) dynasties. About 100 guests from They can be paid up to 100,000 yuan embassies and interna tional organizations, along in latest effort to fight insurance scams with overseas students, participated in the event. WU XIAOHUI / CHINA DAILY By WANG XIAODONG [email protected] We hope intensifying Insurance authorities will finan cially reward whistleblowers who public supervision identify healthcare scams as part of will help authorities the ongoing fight against fraud, according to a circular released by discover problems in the National Healthcare Security a timely manner and Administration and the Ministry of Finance. prevent insurance If the activity was unknown to the scams.” local healthcare insurance depart ment before the report, informants Huang Huabo, insurance fund could receive a percentage of the supervisor at the National Healthcare Security amount involved in the fraud after it Administration Literati mourn author of Emperor series is proved, the circular said. Rewards should not exceed 100,000 yuan ($14,480), it added. ber, the National Healthcare Insur By YANG YANG Nobel laure In an interview with Beijing online program called Listen to The circular was made public on ance Administration vowed to [email protected] ate Mo Yan cre News on Saturday, writer Zhou Masters. Saturday after being released earlier intensify its fight against insurance ated a version of Daxin said Ling was inspired by An eye disease caused by dia to provinciallevel healthcare secu scams across China, focusing on Elites from the world of litera the couplet and A Dream of Red Mansions at a betes meant Ling was unable to rity administrations. hospitals, pharmacies and subscrib ture and fans nationwide have shared an young age and had spent many read or write for long periods, Members of the public can report ers. It released telephone numbers been paying tribute to novelist Ling image of it writ years studying the classic work but he continued to talk about fraudulent practices by operators of for making reports in all 31 main Jiefang, better known by his pen ten in calligra before starting on his own nov corruption, including problems healthcare insurance funds, medi land provinces, municipalities and name Eryue He, who died on Satur phy to mourn els. faced in recent years. cal institutions and pharmacies and autonomous regions. day morning at age 73. Ling Jiefang the nation’s loss. “As a result, unlike many works “The anticorruption cam their employees, as well as by indi “Healthcare insurance authori Ling, who was dean of the Col Ling began by historical novelists, Eryue He’s paigns are unprecedented in vidual insurance subscribers, it said. ties face severe challenges in super lege of Liberal Arts at Zhengzhou writing his first novel, The Great fiction had his own characteris terms of investigative scope and Fraudulent practices include fab vision of the insurance fund, and University in Henan province, was Kangxi Emperor, in 1984 and later tics,” he said. “He injected lots of effort exerted,” he told Xinhua ricating medical services and docu fraudulent practices of various sorts best known for his Emperor series, published Yongzheng Emperor and his own emotion and life philoso News Agency in 2017. “I would ments, providing fake invoices to continue to occur, which seriously which was released between 1989 Qianlong Emperor as part of the phy into his work.” think about the social phenome subscribers, faking of medical ser affect the security of healthcare and 1996, and consists of 5 million same historical fiction series. The Zhou said Ling’s vivid depic na that I observed and use my vice invoices by subscribers, lending insurance funds,” said Huang Hua characters. hugely popular books follow three tions of the Qing Dynasty helped influence to make my contribu a healthcare security card to others bo, an insurance fund supervisor After his death, fans shared a generations of leaders during the people learn the history of the tion to the solutions.” or receiving medical services with with the administration. couplet — a traditional form of two Qing Dynasty (16441911) and fea time. He said that corruption existed another person’s card to profit from “We hope intensifying public line poetry — that includes the line, ture tales of corruption, invasions Because of his detailed not only among the rich and pow the fund. supervision will help authorities “Er yue he kai ling jie fang”, which and rivalries between royal siblings. research into corruption in the erful but was a universal social Whistleblowers can use their discover problems in a timely man translates as “The Yellow River’s All three novels were adapted Qing court, Ling was regarded as phenomenon fueled by consum names or make anonymous reports, ner and prevent insurance scams,” frozen surface breaks in February, into popular TV series in the late an expert on the topic. In 2014, erism. but they must confirm their identity he said. the ice is liberated.” 1990s and early 2000s starring big the Central Commission for Dis The solution to corruption is before they can collect any reward. China’s healthcare authorities have The poem, which quickly went name actors including Chen cipline Inspection, the top anti education, Ling said. “Read Healthcare insurance authorities at punished a number of violators since viral, cleverly combines the Daoming, Tang Guoqiang and graft watchdog, invited him to be books and newspapers carefully, various levels should protect the pri September, when a national cam author’s birth name and pen name. Siqin Gaowa. the first guest speaker for an and learn to live well,” he added. vacy of informants, the circular said. paign was launched to fight scams. The introduction of the regula In Changchun, Jilin province, 761 tion is the latest effort by healthcare medical institutions were given authorities in a campaign to fight punishments, including being made insurance fraud. ineligible to receive payments from University removes professor, citing ethical lapses Last month, a China Central Tele the city’s healthcare insurance fund vision report accused two hospitals and even suspension of business, By ZOU SHUO ious award created by the Minis In another report by China in Shenyang, Liaoning province, of according to the administration. [email protected] 120+ try of Education. Youth Daily, Liang was criticized fraudulent practices, including hos More than 95 percent of people in China Youth Daily recently by her students for her lack of pitalizing insurance subscribers aft China are covered by basic health A sociology professor at Nan Number of papers sociology reported that by the time Liang commitment and enthusiasm in er faking diagnoses to get insurance care insurance programs, which are jing University known for pub professor Liang Ying had joined Nanjing University, she had teaching, including showing up funds. Police detained at least 37 heavily subsidized by the govern lishing and retracting scores of removed from an academic already had more than 30 papers late for lectures, leaving class ear database before being stripped suspects after the report. ment. Reimbursement policies vary academic papers has been of her credentials by Nanjing published. Between 2009 and 2014, ly, playing with her phone during At a news conference in Novem with different groups. removed from her teaching post University she managed to publish 60 papers lectures and allowing other stu due to ethics violations. in Chinese. Since 2014, she has pub dents — and sometimes even her The university said on Saturday lished 43 papers in English. father — to teach the class. Special delivery it had stripped Liang Ying of her submitting duplicate manuscripts Liang has been asking online Teaching ethics will be an indis credentials to supervise graduate of at least 15 of her papers. At the publishers to remove her Chinese pensable part of all teachers’ eval students and some honorary time, the university said it would language papers from their data uations for promotion or getting titles over “serious academic eth investigate the allegations. bases on the grounds that her early awards, and teachers who violate ics and other moral problems”. The 39yearold professor work was fundamentally flawed. ethical standards will not be eligi Departments had been joined Nanjing University — She had more than 120 papers ble for promotion or higher aca instructed to undertake deep self where she completed her doctor removed from one academic data demic titles, the Education reflection and take practical ate — in 2009, after earning a base, earning her the nickname Ministry said in November. Uni measures to prevent such inci master’s degree at Suzhou Uni “Professor 404”, a reference to the versity teachers must not commit dents from happening again, it versity and doing postdoctoral 404 error message displayed online plagiarism in academic research, said in an online statement. research at Peking University and when a web page cannot be found. it added. Liang, who was on the faculty of the University of Chicago, accord Investigators determined that Chen Baosheng, the education the School of Social and Behavior ing to the university website. in some instances her work had minister, said in a video confer al Sciences, became the subject of In 2015, she was recognized by been either plagiarized or submit ence on Friday that the govern media reports in October after the Changjiang Scholars program ted to more than one publication, ment has “zero tolerance” for being accused of plagiarism and for young academics, a prestig with only minor changes.

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