8 General Santos hospitals on brink of bankruptcy over Philhealth’s ‘failure’ to pay up

“PH3669,” the first person confirmed to have contracted COVID-19 in General Santos City, is a businessman who caught the virus while participating in a cock derby in Davao City in 2020.

Dr. Renato Diagan, president of the local chapter of the Private Hospital Association of the Philippines on Thursday, October 14, said the unpaid claims of the local hospitals since last year have accumulated to nearly P1 billion as of August 31. “General Santos City’s hospitals are close to financial exhaustion with the mounting unpaid Philhealth claims and the soaring costs of hospital operations,” Diagan said.

The joined statement was signed by Dr. Adora Auguis-Atilano of the Auguis Clinic and Hospital, Dr. Remo-Tito Aguilar of the General Santos Medical Center, Cesar Mirabueno of the Socsargen County Hospital, Dr. Daniel Yap of the GSCDH, Dr. Felix Garces of the Mindanao Medical Center, Dr. Shalimar Cortez of the Sarangani Bay Specialists Medical Center Inc., Antonio Veneracion of the St. Elizabeth Hospital Inc., and Dr. Diagan of the Diagan Cooperative Hospital.

The city government-run Dr. Jorge P. Royeca Hospital has also been claiming P137 million from Philhealth.on Thursday that P46 million of the claim were for expenses entailed during the treatment of patients with moderate to severe cases of COVID-19 since 2020. “What Philhealth does not know is that we are a Level 1 hospital with an ICU, which qualifies us to file for reimbursement for the treatment of moderate to severe cases of COVID-19,” he said.Dr. Hector Zenon Leonardo Malate, acting vice president of Philhealth for Soccsksargen, said the P834.53 million being claimed by the hospitals did not reconcile with their records.

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