Senator Grace Poe (Office of Sen. Grace Poe/MANILA BULLETIN File Photo)
In a statement on Monday, May 24, she said the PhilHealth “must do all to address hospital claims it refuses to pay as well as the so-called ‘return-to-hospital (RTH) claims’ which threaten the viability of these hospitals.”
She cited a Commission on Audit (COA) 2020 report on the Philippine Children’s Medical Center (PCMC), which supposedly stated that the state health insurer denied a total of 1,641 claims from the government-run hospital amounting to P22.98 million as of September 30, 2020, while RTH claims amounted to P11.60 million representing 683 claims.
RTH claims were sent back to hospitals as PhilHealth deems they still “lack certain requirements.”
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Poe tells PhilHealth to pay hospitals
Sen. Grace Poe reiterated her call to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to speed up payment to public and private hospitals and shun unnecessary and delaying procedures that impair the ability of healthcare institutions to carry out their crucial function.
The senator said that PhilHealth must do all to address hospital claims it refuses to pay as well as the so-called return-to-hospital (RTH) claims which threaten the viability of these hospitals.
The Commission on Audit (COA) report on the Philippine Children s Medical Center (PCMC) showed that PhilHealth denied a total of 1,641 claims from the government-run hospital amounting to P22.98 million as of Sept. 30, 2020 while RTH claims amounted to P11.60 million representing 683 claims. RTH claims are sent back to hospitals as PhilHealth deems they still lack certain requirements.
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May 9, 2021 | 7:34 pm
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BUDGETARY SUPPORT provided to government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) declined 68% year on year to P3.838 billion in March, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) said.
In its cash operations report, the BTr said the year-earlier total was P11.952 billion.
Around 65% of the March 2021 subsidies went to the National Irrigation Administration, down 15% year on year.
The Bases Conversion and Development Authority received P841 million, as opposed to zero a year earlier.
Other GOCCs that received the most subsidies were the Small Business Corp. (P500 million), Philippine Health Center (P444 million); National Kidney Transplant Institute (P320 million), Philippine National Railway (P312 million) and Philippine Children’s Medical Center (P309 million).
Published May 9, 2021, 5:51 PM
Completion of six vital medical infrastructure projects financed by the Philippine Children’s Medical Center with over P776.54 million have been “significantly delayed”, prompting the Commission on Audit to recommend the rescission of contracts of defaulting contractors.
This was gathered as COA questioned PCMC officials for authorizing the payment of over P25.7 million covering professional fees of its medical staff in 2017 and 2018.
COA, in its recently-released 2020 Annual Audit Report for PCMC, also asked the PCMC management to address the non-payment by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) of a total 2,324 claims totaling P34.587 million due to ‘non-compliance with pertinent provisions” of the National Health Insurance Act of 2013.
(DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña’s Facebook)
Respiratory therapists of the Philippine Children’s Medical Center (PCMC) have expressed satisfaction with the performance of the Department of Science and Technology-Industrial Technology Development Institute’s (DOST-ITDI) valved holding chambers (VHCs) that can be used by both coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and non-COVID patients.
DOST Secretary Fortunato “Boy” T. de la Peña said six respiratory therapists of PCMC conducted the performance evaluation of the VHCs that were designed and 3D printed at Materials Development (MATDEV) Laboratory of the DOST-ITDI.
“The purpose of the evaluation was to check for observable changes in the VHCs after sterilization and application of aerosol medicine,” he said in a report.