ILOILO City – The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) has yet to pay the P932.322-million claims of nine hospitals here and the Uswag Molecular Laboratory.
“We can no longer keep track of how many times we have sent communications and conducted meetings with PhilHealth representatives together with the DOH (Department of Health) to find a solution to this seemingly perpetual concern,” said Mayor Jerry Treñas.
He once again wrote the secretaries of the DOH, Department of Interior and Local Government, National Task Force Against COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), and Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases about the “extremely delayed settlement of charges and unjustified refusal of receiving and acknowledging” by PhilHealth Region 6 of the claims.
The hospitals and their unpaid PhilHealth claims (as of Aug. 24) were the following:
* The Medical City Iloilo – P88.052 million
* West Visayas State University Medical Center – P49. 998 million
* Metro Iloilo Hospital and Medical Center – P190.756 million
* QualiMed Hospital – P30.393 million
* Iloilo Doctor’s Hospital – P58.114 million
* St. Paul’s Hospital Iloilo – P95.205 million
* Western Visayas Medical Center – P112.714 million
* Iloilo Mission Hospital – P99.645 million
The Medicus Medical Center also has unpaid claims with PhilHealth (for updating yet) while the city government-run Uswag Molecular Laboratory has P207.441 million.
“Once and for all, may we earnestly implore your favorable action…to…these valid claims,” Treñas wrote. “Our hospitals suffer from losses brought about by (PhilHealth’s) indifference.”
Last week, PhilHealth temporary suspended the payments for claims that were said to be under investigation./PN
