Sector / Industry
Medical Service
Acceptance of advantages
Examples:
- Accepting gifts from patients in defiance of the policy / guidelines of respective medical institutions.
- Accepting rebates from pharmaceutical or medical device companies for recommending their drugs or equipment.
- Accepting commissions or referral fees for referring patients to designated laboratories.
- Accepting advantages from patients for compiling medical reports with untrue information.
Improper acceptance of sponsorship and donation
Examples:
- Accepting sponsorship to attend overseas conference offered by pharmaceutical or medical device companies in return for recommending their drugs or equipment to respective medical institutions.
- Accepting donation from patients in exchange for preferential treatment.
Use of false documents and fraud
Examples:
- Assisting patients to make fraudulent claim of medical expenses from their employers by issuing bogus medical certificates.
- Providing medical service to ineligible persons for deceiving subsidies from the government.
- Conspiring with policyholders and insurance intermediaries to submit false insurance claims with fake medical reports.
- Tampering stock records to cover up misappropriation of medical supplies.
- Assisting an acquainted bidder by hiding away or destroying quotations with lower price or fabricating quotation records.
Mishandling of proprietary information
Examples:
- Divulging confidential tendering information to acquainted medical representatives.
- Disclosing private information of patients without patients' consent.
- Providing personal data of patients to salespersons or insurance intermediaries for marketing purposes.
Conflict of interest
Examples:
- Referring patients to a private medical centre in which you have a personal financial interest for medical checkup.
- Recommending drugs or medical supplies represented by personal friends or relatives to hospital or clinic.
- Offering preferential medical treatment to personal friends or relatives.
- Accepting sponsorship, donation or scholarship from a patient under treatment.