The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) delays in reimbursing private hospitals for treating members of the state health insurer will make it harder for hospitals to retain critical manpower, Senator Joel Villanueva said. “You can have hospital beds but without medical staff, those beds are reduced to pieces of furniture.” “This is also a jobs […]
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Senator Grace Poe called on the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to immediately settle unpaid claims of hundreds of hospitals, saying failure to do so would put in jeopardy their pandemic response. “PhilHealth should pay up. Hospitals are battlegrounds in this fight against COVID-19. They need what’s due to them, especially in this time when […]
Hospitals awaiting due reimbursement from the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) must not be made to wait any longer as they struggle to protect and save lives amid the pandemic, Senator Grace Poe said. Poe made the call following repeated pleas from the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines Inc. (PHAPI) to the state health […]