Chinese Healthcare Corruption Criminal Judgments from 2019 to 2025

573 criminal judgments involving 787 defendants were retrieved from China Judgments Online for dates from September 2019 to December 2025. The dataset, created by Zhiling Shen and last updated in May 2026, provides a reproducible sample of judicially visible healthcare corruption cases. It includes descriptive statistics on case typologies, risk nodes, and sentencing outcomes.

Use Cases

• Analyze corruption typologies based on the three main categories identified: pharmaceutical/clinical commercial bribery, embezzlement, and medical insurance fraud.
• Identify high-risk governance nodes based on the concentration of cases in procurement, medical insurance auditing, and in-hospital finance.
• Study sentencing patterns based on the median principal penalty, probation rates, fines, and recovery actions reported.

Strengths

• The dataset is based on 573 criminal judgments, providing a concrete sample size.
• It covers a defined time range from September 2019 to December 2025.
• The description provides specific quantitative results, such as the 46.60% of cases being pharmaceutical/clinical commercial bribery.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying structured data is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The data is provided as a 182.6 KB DOCX file, which is a small, document-based format rather than a structured data table.

Provenance

Source

China Judgments Online

Collection Method

Criminal judgments were retrieved and screened, followed by structured coding and embedded multiple-case analysis.

Time Range

2019-09-01 to 2025-12-31

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 05:47:38.

Geography

China