If a doctor fabricates the name of a hospital in the Mediclaim form, it amounts to criminal offense and imprisonment up to 3 years and a fine

Section 192 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) discusses false evidence. Section 193 prescribes the punishment for the same. 

“192. Fabricating false evidence.—Whoever causes any circumstance to exist or 1[makes any false entry in any book or record, or electronic record or makes any document or electronic record containing a false statement], intending that such circumstance, false entry or false statement may appear in evi¬dence in a judicial proceeding, or in a proceeding taken by law before a public servant as such, or before an arbitrator, and that such circumstance, false entry or false statement, so ap¬pearing in evidence, may cause any person who in such proceeding is to form an opinion upon the evidence, to entertain an errone¬ous opinion touching any point material to the result of such proceeding, is said “to fabricate false evidence”.

“193. Punishment for false evidence.—Whoever intentionally gives false evidence in any stage of a judicial proceeding, or fabri¬cates false evidence for the purpose of being used in any stage of a judicial proceeding, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine, and whoever intentionally gives or fabricates false evidence in any other case, shall be punished with imprisonment of either de¬scription for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine.”