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A group of private hospitals hopes healthcare workers will not push through with their mass resignation plan over unpaid pandemic-related benefits, amid the country’s worsening COVID-19 situation.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, August 4) State health insurer PhilHealth has not yet paid close to ₱2 billion worth of claims of St. Luke s Medical Center since the pandemic started, an official of the hospital bared Wednesday. We have accounts receivable from Philhealth close to ₱2 billion. That’s a big amount of money, Benjamin Campomanes, chief medical officer and vice president of St. Luke s Medical Center told CNN Philippines The Source. If we were just a small hospital, I’m sure we would have folded up, he noted.
Senators are looking into a possible probe on unpaid hospital claims as Metro Manila prepares to shift to the strictest enhanced community quarantine this week.
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“Ang problema kasi doon sa outlying regions na yan konti po ang facilities nila, hindi katulad ng [National Capital Region], kaya nila ang napakaraming pasyente (The problem ist that in those outlying region have very few facilities unlike in the NCR where they can accommodate more patients),” PHAPI President Dr. Jose de Grano said in an interview with DZBB.
“Doon po sa mga region na yun dahil nga po konti ang healthcare facilities, may mga ospital talagang halos critical na ang kanilang occupancy rates. Ibig sabihin nun more than 80 percent na po ang kanilang occupancy rate (Because there are few healthcare facilities in those regions, there are hospitals there that have critical occupancy rate. This means their occupancy rate is more than 80 percent),” he added.