Hospitals should avail themselves of the new debit-credit payment scheme of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to speed up the payment by the state insurer to their unpaid reinbursement claims, a Palace official said on Tuesday, Dec. 14. Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles (PCOO /...
State-run Social Security System (SSS) said that funeral claims increased more than threefold in the first semester of the year driven by various online service facilities introduced by the pension fund. In a statement, Aurora C. Ignacio, SSS president and chief executive officer said the company...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) served a show-cause order against two officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) early this week. Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) and Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) logos In a statement, ARTA said it served the...
The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) is set to form a technical working group (TWG) to expedite the release of unpaid wages and end of contract payments of Filipino migrant workers from Saudi Arabia who were forced to return home in 2016. (Jansen Romero / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) "The...
Vice presidential candidate Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Tuesday urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to make reimbursement claims faster and easier for private hospitals. Go, who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, made the call following reports that some private...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has joined other lawmakers in prodding the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to settle the reimbursement claims of private hospitals as some of them threatened to cut ties with the health state insurer. Hontiveros said it is necessary for private hospitals to...
Senator Sonny Angara has urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to fast track the reimbursment claims of private hospitals, saying the country could not afford to have its healthcare system plunging into another crisis. Angara made the call after some private hospitals in Metro...
Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday, October 12, called on the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to pay the claims of private hospitals for its services in General Santos City. Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Trillanes, who is seeking a...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA), along with other key government agencies, issued a Joint Memorandum Circular (JMC) containing guidelines on the processing of the benefits of uniformed personnel and their legal beneficiaries. (AFP/MANILA BULLETIN) This came months after President Duterte ordered...
Insurance payments related to the coronavirus pandemic hit more than P8 billion. IC Comm. Dennis B. Funa Since the pandemic began, Insurance Commissioner Dennis B. Funa reported that payouts made by life and non-life insurers, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and mutual benefit associations...
Leaders of the House of Representatives are batting for the increase in compensation of persons wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for a crime they did not commit. Prison cells Deputy Speakers Michael Romero (1PACMAN Partylist) and Evelina Escudero (2nd District, Sorsogon) called for the immediate...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) has reiterated its call for the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to actively find solutions to address the backlog in the payment of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) claims, reminding them that the pandemic was not an excuse for delays. Anti-Red...
