PhilHealth, nangakong babayaran na ang mga utang sa mga ospital sa loob nang 90 araw

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PhilHealth, nangakong babayaran na ang mga utang sa mga ospital sa loob nang 90 araw; pangangailangan at benepisyo ng healthcare workers, pinatututukan ng mga kongresista

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00:00 PhilHealth assured the Chamber that they will resolve their almost P30 billion debt to hospitals

00:07 in the near future.

00:09 Mela Lesmora has more.

00:11 The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation of PhilHealth

00:16 has promised to pay their debts to hospitals in the country within three months.

00:22 According to the House Committee on Appropriations, the bills that affect the services of hospitals are already in the air.

00:31 So they should be able to proceed.

00:33 There are so many hospitals that are not accepting indigent patients

00:40 because PhilHealth owes a lot of money to them.

00:45 There are also many that are not able to pay their staff frontliners because PhilHealth owes a lot.

00:54 We will completely, hopefully, or very high percentage, within 90 days,

01:00 the P27 billion, you can...

01:06 this is recorded, right?

01:08 So within 90 days, we will try to pay a very high percentage of the P27 billion.

01:15 We are already preparing. We had a meeting, our execom had a meeting yesterday.

01:20 We are preparing to use the DCPM formula, the Debit Credit Payment Mechanism formula.

01:29 Aside from this, PhilHealth also discussed with some

01:33 why the salary of some official agencies tripled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

01:40 Our salary was increased based on an EO, an executive order, 150.

01:47 Even before we were allowed to pattern our salaries on this EO,

01:55 we actually applied to the GCG and we have the certification process.

02:01 And we went through this and we were approved.

02:04 All of this was discussed in the deliberation of the Department of Health's budget for the next year.

02:11 For fiscal year 2024, the government is asking for more than P311 billion

02:18 along with their attached corporations and agencies.

02:21 We want to have better health outcomes with longer life expectancy,

02:26 stronger health systems that are resilient against pandemics,

02:29 and access of all Filipinos to all levels of healthcare.

02:33 At one point, the government also said that the funding of some DOH branches is not enough.

02:40 This is how it is in the new Philippines.

02:43 Our health and social services are being cut.

02:48 Madam Chair, I also echo the sentiment of our colleagues that this should not be the case with DOH.

02:55 I find it unfair on the part of the administration being wrongly accused that many programs are being cut because of health issues.

03:03 Because this is a budget briefing.

03:05 It is not possible that we have a drama that we are showing that all health programs are being cut

03:12 and making the administration look back where in fact it is not true.

03:16 Even though the pandemic is over, congressmen reminded that the government should still pay attention

03:23 to the needs of healthcare workers and to provide their benefits.

03:28 Authorities have been cutting health programs from then until now

03:35 as one of their priorities.

03:38 Mela Las Moras for the nation.

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