The government pandemic task force has allowed the implementation of Philippine Health Insurance Corporation's (PhilHealth) new debit-credit payment for health care facilities in all places with high risk of coronavirus infection. The decision aimed at hastening payment of hospital claims was...
Senator Grace Poe on Friday, April 23, urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) not to delay its reimbursements to hospitals. Citing repeated pleas from hospital organizations awaiting due payments from the state health insurer, Poe said hospitals should not be made to wait...
The tug-of-war between private hospitals and the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) rages on. Amid a surging pandemic and calls from the Department of Health (DOH) for provision of more beds and facilities, hospital owners report that they are constrained to lay off health...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) has called out the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to address the backlogs on the release of claims of hospitals. "There seems to be a mounting request from the hospitals to reimburse immediately specifically those hospitals, the smaller ones...
The Supreme Court, in a decision dated January 28, 2021, affirmed the notices of disallowance by the Commission on Audit (COA) on some P204.7 million granted by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) to its officials and its employees in various kinds of benefits in...
Government agencies are rushing the completion of the revised joint administrative order (JAO) to constitute the Price Negotiation Board (PNB) that will centrally negotiate price of supplies of pharmaceuticals and medical devices for the Department of Health (DOH) and the Philippine Health...
