Reports Outline Public Health Study Findings from Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University (Research on the Formation Mechanism of Health Insurance Fraud in China: From the Perspective of the Tripartite Evolutionary Game): Health and Medicine – Public Health

2022 JUL 11 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health Policy and Law Daily -- Current study results on public health have been published. According to news reporting from Changsha, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “The problem of fraud in China’s health insurance has existed for a long time and is becoming more serious, which needs to be solved urgently.”

The news editors obtained a quote from the research from Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University: “This article constructs a tripartite evolutionary game model to study the formation mechanism of the Health Insurance fraud, game participants including medical administrative organization (MAO, a government department responsible for health insurance supervision), medical institutions (MI, such as hospitals), and insured individuals (II, who participating in medical and healthcare insurance). By analyzing the equilibrium of the tripartite evolutionary game, this paper makes an in-depth study on the formation and resolution of health insurance fraud. The results show that: (1) How to prevent the fraud behavior of the medical institutions is the difficulty and core of the problem. It is necessary to achieve effective supervision of the MAO, improve the internal management of the MI and give play to the supervisory role of the II. (2) The regulatory behavior of the MAO needs to focus on protecting the interests of the II, not only to encourage them to actively play the role of supervision and reporting but also to prevent their collusion with MI. (3) On the one hand, the MAO needs to strengthen supervision and increase the punishment for fraud.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “On the other hand, they also need to take incentive measures to guide all subjects to form a sound internal management mechanism.”

For more information on this research see: Research on the Formation Mechanism of Health Insurance Fraud in China: From the Perspective of the Tripartite Evolutionary Game. Frontiers in Public Health, 2022,10. (Frontiers in Public Health - http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/public-health). The publisher for Frontiers in Public Health is Frontiers Media S.A.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.930120.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Yun Fei, Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Yi Fu, Dong-xiao Yang, Chang-hao Hu. Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.