DOH, PhilHealth spar over status of late payments to hospitals

MANILA — Officials of the Department of Health and state insurer Philippine Health Insurance Corporation on Wednesday sparred over the status of P19.74 billion in delayed PhilHealth payments to hospitals, during a Senate finance subcommittee hearing.

“Madam Chair, ang pera po na ito ay malamang na malamang, nasa ospital na po to dahil sa, yung pera na yan available on our bank. It’s a matter of pagcredit dun sa account ng mga hospitals,” he said. “But I’m telling you, some of what our financial management vice president is saying is actually not true, based on what I’ve verified,” he stressed.“If I may respectfully suggest to DOH Sec Herbosa, kasi this is 51 hospitals. So hindi pa po kumpleto so it will be hard to really to make a conclusion. So maybe it would it would be nice… Baka Sec. Ted, baka pwedeng ikumpleto na muna natin lahat ng 100 percent of hospitals and then tsaka i-submit. At least we could already draw conclusions.

Cayetano, who called the hearing to check if PhilHealth needs additional funding to meet its obligations, said that while the hearing clarified certain matters, some questions are still unanswered.

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