Gwangju Police Accelerate Investigation into Spine Hospital over Allegations of Excessive Treatment and False Prescriptions

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Jin-hyung] The Gwangju police are accelerating their investigation, including raids, targeting a spine hospital suspected of excessive treatment and false prescriptions.

According to the Gwangju Western Police Station on the 12th, the police sent investigators to the spine specialty hospital at the end of last month to secure related materials such as medical charts and surgical records, and are focusing on analyzing the data to prove the allegations.

It is known that they confirmed suspicious circumstances of fraud, such as non-reimbursable surgical materials prescribed by the hospital not being recorded in the actual surgical records.

Doctor A, affiliated with the hospital, has been booked on charges of violating the Medical Service Act and fraud for falsely prescribing surgical materials between 2017 and 2019 to gain unfair profits from patients.

Meanwhile, six people including doctors and nursing assistants affiliated with the hospital are currently under investigation for performing surgeries on behalf of others.

The investigation is being handled by the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crime Investigation Unit of the Gwangju Metropolitan Police Agency. The police believe they performed proxy surgeries more than 10 times and have booked six individuals, planning to soon apply for arrest warrants for three key figures among them.

Previously, the police had applied for arrest warrants once, but are conducting supplementary investigations at the request of the prosecution.

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