A group of Chinese doctors has been busted for multiple instances of insurance fraud—using the cadavers of recently-deceased cancer patients to falsify traffic accidents—that allowed them to collect millions of yuan in ill-begotten compensation.
The state-run People’s Daily reported on May 19 that several doctors working at the Biling County People’s Hospital in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui were suspected of taking part in the crime ring.
Since May 2011, a doctor surnamed Yang began work looking after terminal cancer patients at the behest of Wang, who then served as director of the hospital’s Medical Insurance Department.
Together, the two men encouraged patients to buy expensive insurance plans. When the patient in question died, Yang would arrange an auto accident in collusion with his family members. Two other doctors, surnamed Ning and Li, would rush to the scene of the “accident” and pretend to provide “intensive care” to the deceased patient, whose body Yang used as a prop.
