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 /...
Private hospitals are ready in case there is a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) surge driven by the Omicron variant. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In an interview over TeleRadyo, Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines (PHAPI) President Dr. Jose de Grano said there are still over 13,000 active...
Senate Finance Committee chair Senator Sonny Angara on Sunday renewed his call for the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to settle all of its obligations, particularly to private hospitals. Angara noted PhilHealth’s financial obligations to private hospitals have accumulated to...
The city government of Manila announced on Tuesday, Nov. 23, that it has already received the first batch of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) antiviral drug, Molnupiravir. PHOTO COURTESY OF MANILA PIO/ MANILA BULLETIN Around 40,000 capsules of Molnupiravir were delivered to the Sta. Ana Hospital...
The occupancy rates of hospitals and isolation facilities in Metro Manila have been improving following the continued decline in the number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the region. One Hospital Command Center This was according to Dr. Marylaine Padlan of the government’s One Hospital...
Department of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III (PCOO) Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III has urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to immediately settle the unpaid claims of various hospitals. Duque said that the state-health insurer should...
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...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte on Thursday, Oct. 28, announced that the city government-owned Rosario Maclang Bautista General Hospital (RMBGH) now offers enhanced medical services. RMBGH is a 107-bed capacity hospital that provides medical care to residents of Quezon City. The Department of Health...
The recruitment of participants for the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Solidarity Vaccines Trial (SVT) has been piloted in three hospitals in Metro Manila, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DOST Undersecretary for Research and Development...
Barangay officials are at the receiving end of numerous complaints of neglect and inaction over their supposed failure to lend their ambulances to their distressed constituents prompting calls for the intervention of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) on the matter. Feeling...
