Chinese Healthcare Corruption Criminal Judgments from 2019 to 2025

573 criminal judgments from China Judgments Online detail 787 defendants convicted of healthcare corruption between September 2019 and December 2025. Zhiling Shen compiled this sample to map typologies, risk nodes, and institutional mechanisms. The data reveals pharmaceutical bribery was the most common category, accounting for 46.60% of cases.

Use Cases

• Analyze corruption typology distributions based on the three main case categories identified (pharmaceutical bribery, embezzlement, insurance fraud).
• Study sentencing patterns based on the reported median principal penalty of 36 months and probation rate of 42.90%.
• Identify high-risk governance nodes based on the concentration of cases in procurement (335 cases) and medical insurance auditing (136 cases).

Strengths

• Contains 573 criminal judgments involving 787 defendants, providing a substantive sample size.
• Covers a defined time range from September 2019 to December 2025, allowing for temporal analysis.
• Judgments are sourced from the public China Judgments Online platform, supporting reproducibility.

Limitations

• The dataset is a single 164.6 KB PDF file; the underlying structured data and column definitions are unavailable.
• Row count for any potential underlying tabular data is unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• The data represents judicially visible corruption, which the author notes is a legally filtered subset and not a direct estimate of underlying incidence.

Provenance

Source

China Judgments Online

Collection Method

Criminal judgments were retrieved, screened, and coded using an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design.

Time Range

2019-09-01 to 2025-12-31

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 05:47:37.

Geography

China