3 hospital staffers held for insurance racket
Gurugram, Feb. 20 -- A private hospital in New Palam Vihar and a diagnostic centre in Sector 6 were raided on Wednesday for allegedly forging fake medical records to claim money from medical insurance, officials said on Thursday.
The raid was conducted by Gurugram Police and the health department on Wednesday following an inquiry by the chief minister's Flying Squad last year, officials said.
Police said three employees of the hospital - Sapna Kumari, Varsha Kumari and Gaurav Kumar, all in their mid-20s - were arrested.
Abhilaksh Joshi, ACP (west Gurugram), said the three were the main suspects who forged medical records and sent them to insurance firms to process the claims. "Medical records of 58 ghost patients were found at the hospital, against which Rs.1 crore was disbursed from 25 prominent insurance firms," he said.
"These patients never received treatment at the hospital. Each file had bills from Rs.60,000 to Rs.80,000 for various ailments," Joshi said, adding that a case had been filed....
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