PhilHealth gave P200-M to hospitals with only one COVID-19 patient each – Lacson

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MANILA, Philippines — Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) released over P200 million worth of funds to hospitals treating only one COVID-19 patient each, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said on

One hospital is in Bicol and another in Eastern Visayas, Lacson said in a radio interview over AM radio station DWIZ, but he did not identify the hospitals.In Bicol, P247 million was released in just two weeks, and in Eastern Visayas, P196 million was released in just a week, he said.Lacson lamented that there were other hospitals full of COVID-19 in dire need of funds from PhilHealth.

“This is a surprising allegation. We got this report and we will ask [at a planned Senate hearing] if this is true. But this has records,” he said. According to Lacson, five hospitals in two regions are involved in this reported scheme from PhilHealth.He pointed out that its debt-to-equity ratio was falsified in its financial statement for 2019. According to him, it was actually 1:0.99. / atmThe comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of management and owner of Cebudailynews. We reserve the right to exclude comments that we deem to be inconsistent with our editorial standards.

 

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Of course it's not just the PhilHealth people but the enterprising doctors, especially those in govt. service making it big milking the agency...

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