SunStar
+ February 11, 2021 WHILE Covid-19 is a true story, there might also be some grain of truth to the claim of Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia that isolation facilities are making money from the pandemic.
Garcia said these facilities claim for a single patient P22,449, the maximum reimbursement from the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) granted to a beneficiary under the Covid-19 community isolation benefit package (CCIBP).
Covid-19 has become an “incentivized disease,” said the governor. “Isolation centers now are lucrative businesses. Because who wanted to spend P22,449 to feed and house a patient within 10 days?” the governor said.
Garcia cites, for instance, tuberculosis, a severe illnesses, which is being ignored because the attention has been focused on Covid-19 for reasons that it is covered by the Philhealth package. Under the insurance firm’s Circular 2020-0012, a DOH-certified community isolation unit (CIU) may claim reimbursements