Five doctors in Kaohsiung prescribe antipyretics after vaccinating children, but because the health insurance system lacks the option of "prescribing preventive antipyretics after vaccination", they were held accountable by the judiciary.

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[Reporter Huang Jialin/Kaohsiung Report] After 5 doctors in Kaohsiung vaccinated children, because the current health insurance system does not have the option of "prescribing preventive antipyretics after vaccination", they switched to "acute pharyngitis" and other symptoms, kindly helping parents Preparing medicine, suspected of being reported to the National Health Insurance Administration for fraudulently receiving health insurance premiums; after the conclusion of the investigation, the Xiong prosecutors found that the five doctors were different from the previous fraudulently collecting health insurance premiums, and did not constitute a crime of fraud. They were only punished for the crime of forging documents with deferred prosecution .

Prosecutors pointed out that a clinic in the Xinxing District of Kaohsiung was suspected of being reported to the National Health Insurance Department. When five doctors in the clinic injected children with the 6-in-1 vaccine, they falsely opened medical records and applied for points to the National Health Insurance Department. They are suspected of fraudulently receiving health insurance. After the National Health Insurance Department transferred the case to the police unit for investigation, five doctors from the clinic were summoned by the police to explain the case.

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Five doctors confessed to the crime after they came to the case, but emphasized that they did not fraudulently claim health insurance premiums. They said that because the current health insurance declaration system does not have the option of "prescribing preventive antipyretics after vaccination", they kindly wanted to help parents To prepare medicine, you can only prescribe antipyretics for symptoms such as "acute pharyngitis".

The prosecution found that 5 doctors prescribed antipyretics for 23 children, and did not report to the National Health Insurance Department. However, their behavior was different from the usual health insurance fraud in the past. The 5 people were punished only for the crime of forging documents with deferred prosecution, and they should pay 10,000 to 100,000 yuan to the charity account of the National Health Insurance Department and participate in legal education lectures.