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author | ma xiaohua, china business news

recently, the issue of henan qingfeng first hospital's long-term wage arrears for medical staff has attracted attention. on august 31, the qingfeng first hospital problem investigation team issued a statement and stated that after preliminary verification, the hospital is a private hospital. the investigation team will urge the hospital to actively deal with the situation reported by netizens and strive to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of employees.

"we only paid salaries up to january this year, and not the full amount. the reason given was that the hospital had no money." medical staff at qingfeng first hospital said that the hospital's diagnosis and treatment situation has declined slightly compared to last year.

according to the official website, qingfeng first hospital is located in qingfeng county, puyang city, henan province. it was formerly qingfeng county people's hospital and was restructured into a private hospital in 2014. it is a class ii class a general hospital and the main medical institution for medical services in qingfeng county. the hospital has 800 open beds, an annual outpatient volume of more than 300,000 people, and an annual discharge of more than 30,000 people.

in response to the collective wage demands of medical staff, qingfeng first hospital issued an announcement on august 28, saying that the hospital is actively preparing funds and will pay performance wages for january 2024 according to the new performance accounting method before the mid-autumn festival. the announcement also stated that the hospital leaders have repeatedly reported to the qingfeng county party committee, the county government and the investors on the current operating conditions of the hospital. at present, the county government and the county health and health commission have interviewed the investors and issued a formal letter, requiring them to quickly fulfill their promises.

in fact, in the past few years, qingfeng first hospital has been repeatedly exposed for arrears of employee wages. on the leadership message board of people's daily online, in 2023, someone claiming to be a family member of a nurse at qingfeng first hospital left a message saying that his wife had not received her salary since march 2022. the reply from the inspection bureau of the county party committee and county government was that after investigation, the salary of nurses at the first hospital had been paid until august 2023, and the performance salary had been paid until april 2023. in addition, some people complained that the salary paid by the hospital to employees was only more than 500 yuan, or even less, after deducting five insurances. at the same time, it mentioned the problem of the hospital's long-term arrears of employee performance wages.

on august 31, the investigation team of qingfeng first hospital publicly responded: recently, some netizens reported that qingfeng first hospital had a wage arrears problem. the qingfeng county party committee and county government attached great importance to it and set up an investigation team composed of the health commission and other departments to enter the hospital. after preliminary verification, the hospital is a private hospital. the investigation team will urge the hospital to actively deal with the situation reported by netizens and strive to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of employees.

why did qingfeng first hospital have no money to pay the medical staff? it is not clear at present. however, according to aiqicha information, from july 31 to august 19, 2024, qingfeng first hospital had 8 cases executed, with a total execution amount of 57.9892 million yuan, most of which were mainly related to sales contract disputes and medical damage disputes.

in august 2023, haiwang bio (000078.sz) disclosed an announcement on the cumulative litigation and arbitration, showing that among the litigation cases involving haiwang bio and its holding subsidiaries as plaintiffs or applicants, 10 cases involved 8 medical institutions and disease control centers, with a total amount of more than 312 million yuan involved, including qingfeng first hospital, involving an amount of 7.9746 million yuan.

in addition, in february 2024, qingfeng first hospital was also punished by the qingfeng county medical security bureau, which ordered it to return 724,764.38 yuan of medical security funds and imposed a fine of 859,391.9 yuan, which is 1.5 times the amount of fund losses from may 1, 2021 to december 31, 2022. the total amount exceeded 1.58 million yuan.

in 2022, qingfeng first hospital was also punished by the puyang medical security bureau for causing losses to medical insurance funds through split charging and over-restricted drug use. it was required to return the illegal amount of 4,088,548.03 yuan from january 1, 2020 to april 30, 2021, and the illegal amount of 411,563.05 yuan from may 1, 2021 to june 30, 2021, and to divide the amount involved from may 1, 2021 to june 30, 2021 by a fine of 4.115135 million yuan.

from july 31 to august 19, 2024, eight cases were executed at qingfeng first hospital.

"after the restructuring, qingfeng first hospital became a private hospital and is responsible for its own profits and losses. however, many private hospitals are designated medical insurance units, and medical insurance funds account for a relatively large proportion of the hospital's income. in recent years, the use of medical insurance funds has been very strictly supervised. if they are not used in a standardized manner, the hospital's medical insurance designation will be cancelled, or the use of medical insurance will be stopped, which will directly affect the hospital's income." said an expert in health administration.

the factors that affect the development of private hospitals are not only medical insurance, but also many technical and social factors. although the country strongly encourages the development of private medical institutions, the current situation of private medical institutions is not optimistic. in the first quarter of this year alone, dozens of private hospitals declared bankruptcy and liquidation, including large-scale and high-end hospitals.