MANILA – The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) remains “financially strong” amid a claim by a group of private hospitals that it owes them some P6 billion in debt, an official said Tuesday.
“We have a net cash flow of P9 billion. Hindi totoong nalulugi ang PhilHealth. We are financially strong at the moment,” said Dr. Shirley Domingo, PhilHealth’s vice president for corporate affairs, in an interview.
Domingo denied that PhilHealth owes members of the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines (PHAP) P6 billion. “Base sa aming datos eh wala naman kaming utang na P6 billion,” she said.
PHAP earlier claimed that the debt was from 2011 to 2017.
Domingo explained that PhilHealth is currently processing claims worth some P7 billion, and that these claims are well within the 60-day allowed processing period.
“Ang PhilHealth po ay nagpa-process ng claims. Daily po may pumapasok na claims sa amin. We have around 44,000 claims a day na pumapasok at pina-process namin. Therefore meron kaming pending claims sa amin,” she said.
Domingo added the average turnaround time in the processing of claims is 33 days.
She said the P6-billion figure PHAP came out with must be based from
claims that were either “denied” or “returned to hospitals” over various reasons. (GMA News)
