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The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) on Tuesday, Jan. 11, pledged to settle all the unpaid claims of private hospitals within six months amid threats of some medical facilities to disengage with the state-run corporation. During a House Committee on Health hearing presided by Quezon...

The House Committee on Health, through the initiative of ACT-CIS Partylist Rep. Rowena 'Niña' Taduran, will investigate the questionable sale of two lots belonging to the Philippine Orthopedic Center to a couple at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic despite a court ruling against it. The...

Contrary to the grim scenario painted by its officials about the 2020 financial condition of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, the Philhealth is still awash with cash and can easily pay the P28 billion it allegedly owes hospitals and medical health facilities. Philhealth logo This was...

The measure seeking to deploy dentists and licensed medical technologists as additional medical personnel duly trained by the Department of Health (DOH) to be at the forefront of the government’s fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is now up for plenary discussion. This was after...

“Good border control” will keep Philippines protected against the Gamma variant, another 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) modification that is suspected of causing reinfection of people and was reported to have been the cause of deaths among young children in Brazil....