Senator Grace Poe on Friday called on the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to immediately settle unpaid claims of hundreds of hospitals, saying failure to do so would put in jeopardy their pandemic response.
“PhilHealth should pay up. Hospitals are battlegrounds in this fight against COVID-19. They need what’s due to them, especially in this time when a number of them are overwhelmed with patients due to the recent surge of infections,” she said.
The Senate public services committee chair cited reports that in Western Visayas alone, including Iloilo City, claims of hospitals and laboratories have reached over P800 million.
Local executives of the same area have raised the SOS to the national government over the lack of hospital beds, dwindling medical staff, inadequate vaccine supply, shortage of medicines and the slack in PhilHealth’s settling its dues.
“Being reimbursed of their rightful claims would capacitate hospitals to fully respond to the needs of their patients – both Covid-19 and non-Covid-19,” Poe said.
The senator said that PhilHealth owes it to its members to be able to deal with the challenges hounding its system to reimburse hospitals.
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