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A hospital in Gyeonggi-do, which performs spine surgery, is being accused of excessively treating patients after receiving a referral through a broker and unfairly taking large amounts of medical expenses through this.

The police believe that they also gave cash to the patients saying they will return their co-payments for indemnity insurance. 



This is the exclusive report by reporter Park Ye-rin. 



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The police seized and searched a hospital in Hanam, Gyeonggi Province, which mainly performs spinal surgery today (20th). 



The hospital is accused of violating the Medical Law, which placed patients through 10 brokers who were introduced by a consulting firm that signed a contract in January of this year. 



It was found that about 20% of the operating cost was paid to the broker as a commission. 



[Informant A: (The cost of the treatment) is 22,200, 24 million won on average.

Even if you catch only 20% of it, the lowest price is 4 million won.] 



Police believe that the hospital treated the patients collected in this way and received a large amount of medical expenses, and made them claim indemnity insurance. 



It is said that they falsely filled out medical documents and other documents as if they had performed spinal surgery in one place and then performed multiple procedures, performed a procedure that could not be claimed by insurance, and decorated the confirmation letter with a procedure that could be claimed by insurance. 



In particular, it seems that the hospital returned the patient's co-payment, who could not receive it even after claiming the actual loss insurance, in cash, leading to unfair claims. 



[Informant A: It means that 20% is self-pay.

When patients make a payment, we have the employee go to the bank to collect the amount in cash and pay it in cash.] The 



hospital said to SBS reporters who asked for an official position, "I will cooperate with the police investigation as much as possible." 



As soon as the police finish analyzing the confiscated items, they plan to call hospital officials in turn to investigate. 



It also decided to analyze the patient list and investigate those who conspired with the insurance fraud allegation. 



(Video coverage: Han Il-sang, Yoon Hyung, Video editing: Kim Kyung-yeon)