BACOLOD City – Lone District Rep. Greg Gasataya is urging the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to settle the P134,607,154.94 unpaid claims of Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Regional Hospital (CLMMRH).
Gasataya said CLMMRH “badly” need the money to sustain the hospital’s daily expenses amid the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.
He wrote a letter for this call dated July 27 to PhilHealth president and chief executive officer Ricardo Morales government.
According to Gasataya, CLMMRH medical chief Julius Drilon told him that PhilHealth’s unpaid claims as of June 30 were supposedly intended for the procurement of supplies, like extraction kits, test kits, personal protective equipment, which will be used in the hospital’s molecular laboratory.
CLMMRH is the only tertiary government hospital in Negros Occidental.
“If (the reimbursements are) left unsettled, the operations of the hospital would be hampered as expenses for the laboratory consumables per month amount to approximately P7 million,” Gasataya said.
The CLMMRH has become the leading institution in the testing and treatment of COVID-19 patients in this province, Gatasaya pointed out./PN
