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PhilHealth Expands Coverage: Emergency Procedures Now Covered Without Admission

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has expanded its coverage to include outpatient emergency care, offering financial relief to Filipinos who require urgent medical attention but don't need hospitalization. This new benefit, called the "Outpatient Emergency Care Benefit (OECB) package," took effect on January 1, 2024. Under the OECB, PhilHealth

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The government holds the unutilized PhilHealth funds.

The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) has been urged by Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa to return wasted and idle funds to the national government. Herbosa argues that these funds should be returned because they were not savings. "It's not from the members' contributions. This is not from their reserve fund;

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Dialysis organizations fear that expanding PhilHealth coverage will result in centers closing.

The Philippines' Dialysis Coalition issues a warning, stating that numerous treatment facilities may close as a result of PhilHealth's recent rise in benefits for dialysis. The president of DCPI, Dr. Michael Manalaysay, claims that while this is a big benefit for patients, treatment facilities would be negatively impacted. According to

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Serious cases of pertussis can receive coverage of up to P90,000 through PhilHealth.

The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) would pay up to P90,000 to hospitalized pertussis patients; the current case rate is between P13,780 and P19,500, which includes hospital and professional fees. But in the event that a patient contracts severe pneumonia—a frequent side effect of the illness—

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Primary care providers get P257 million from PhilHealth.

As part of its initial tranche of capitation payments to primary care provider networks, PhilHealth has issued over P257 million to support the countrywide implementation of its comprehensive outpatient benefits package, Konsultasyong Sulit at Tama. According to a "sandbox" setup, PhilHealth had paid capitation monies to four of the first

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PhilHealth is rocked by another data leak.

DCT Undersecretary Jeffrey Ian Dy claims that code mistakes, not cybercriminals, were the cause of the website malfunctions on PhilHealth. Now that the problem has been rectified, regular operations can resume. “It seems that there were some errors made in building the website. They fixed it already. It was a

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Executive pay at PhilHealth nearly tripled in 2022

The overall salary of top executives of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation nearly quadrupled from P26.202 million in 2021 to P72.244 million the following year, according to PhilHealth's financial disclosures for 2022. The financial results for the public health insurance company were included in the Commission on Audit's

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Bill allowing president to halt PhilHealth premium increase approved by House

The bill that would have given the president of the nation the authority to halt the upcoming rate increases in the monthly contributions to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. was approved by the House of Representatives on Tuesday during final reading (PhilHealth) 273 congressmen in total voted in favor of