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How fast it can reimburse hospitals for COVID-19 screening is the “new speed test” that PhilHealth should pass to debunk mounting complaints that it had been slow in paying frontline facilities.  This challenge was hurled by Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto at

How to make Interim Reimbursement Mechanism (IRM) releases transparent and open to scrutiny? Post them in the PhilHealth website, which requires no expensive IT software to do. Enumerate the basic data: amount, date of release, recipient institutions and their facility capacity,

After admitting that it has only 16 auditors deployed at PhilHealth, Sen. Ralph Recto expects the Commission on Audit “to hang up ‘help wanted’ signs” to recruit accountants who will beef up the “COA detachment” in the embattled state health insurer.  “Kahit one auditor

Senate Committee of Whole hearing sa umano’y corruption sa PhilHealth 11 August 2020 Ex-officio members (secretaries of Health, Finance, Budget, Labor, Social Welfare) nilagay sa Universal Health Care law upang tumayong “Big Brothers” o “Kuya” na pupuna sa mga mali at pagkukulang

Whoever are fired or hired, these must be done: 1) More than special audit, PhilHealth requires constant audit. I doubt if COA auditors in that agency number more than 25. Too small for a P140-billion-a-year agency, which transacts 35,000 claims a day from 8,500 hospitals and

Senate Committee of the Whole hearing on the alleged corruption in PhilHealth – August 4, 2020 HIGHLIGHTS: Sa pahayag ng PhilHealth na masisimot na ang actuarial funds nila sa susunod na taon, nilinaw ni Senator Recto na: May P110 billion Reserve Fund ang PhilHealth para sa

The Department of Health and PhilHealth should not be begging for funds. They should automatically be getting what is due them from the TRAIN Law. But for 2020, the two agencies’ sin tax dividends are P28.3 billion short of what Republic Act 11346 guarantees. This results in

Malacañang plans to buy P19.1 billion worth of drugs and vaccines in 2020 and will send 80 percent of these to provinces, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. Recto said the “purchase order” is contained in President Duterte’s 36-page Budget Message for 2020, which

The actual number of dengue cases in the country during the first half of the year may be higher than the one reported by the Department of Health (DOH) if the number of reimbursement claims filed before the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) is the basis. “There is

Republic of the Philippines Congress of the Philippines Metro Manila Seventeenth Congress Third Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-third day of July, two thousand eighteen. [REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11228] AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE MANDATORY