PhilHealth assures private hospitals of claims’ payment

THE Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has assured a group of private hospitals that it would settle its P7 billion to P9 billion in unpaid hospital claims.

The state-run health insurance agency and the Private Hospital Association of the Philippines (PHAPI) signed a joint statement acknowledging the concern of PHAPI whose members have threatened to shut down and agreeing to address them by identifying paid claims, claims in process, and claims that have been denied, among others.