Probe on health insurance fraud to be strengthened

The National Health Insurance Corp. says it will introduce a new National Health Insurance Benefits Management System (NHI-BMS) sooner or later as part of its efforts to screen falsified reports of treatment costs to the NHIC.

The state-run agency has seen an increase in the illegal practice by many hospitals and clinics.

“If a medical institution submits false report, NHI-BMS could detec...