BMC Public Health (Jan 2024)

What are people’s attitudes toward medical insurance fraud whistleblowers? a study from China

  • Fangting Chen,
  • Fangmin Deng,
  • Jingran He,
  • Jinpeng Xu,
  • Jian Liu,
  • Qi Shi,
  • Hongyu Zhang,
  • Ting Zhang,
  • Qunhong Wu,
  • Lijun Gao,
  • Guomei Tian,
  • Zheng Kang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-17606-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

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Abstract Purpose Medical insurance fraud has caused huge losses to countries around the world, and public reporting has become an important means to combat medical insurance fraud. The attitude of medical insurance fraud whistleblowers affects people’s reporting behavior, and understanding people’s attitude toward medical insurance fraud whistleblowers provides a basis for further improving the system and policy of public participation in medical insurance fund supervision. Methods We adopted the questionnaire method to conduct a national cross-sectional survey of the Chinese public and analyzed the data using Chi-square tests, Fisher’s exact tests, and binary logistic regression models. Results A total of 837 respondents were included, and 81.8% of the population had a supportive attitude toward medical insurance fraud whistleblowers, with gender, whether they had used medical insurance reimbursement, and present life satisfaction being statistically significant (P < 0.05). Conclusion The public is generally supportive of medical insurance fraud whistleblowers, and women, those who have used medical insurance for reimbursement, and those who are satisfied with their lives are more likely to be supportive of medical insurance fraud whistleblowers.

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