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The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) reminds all concerned health care institutions (HCIs) to register their patients assessed as financially incapable (FI) under the Point of Service (POS) program within 72 hours from assessment so that their claims will not be denied. The reminder was issued in the light of observations and reports that there are HCIs registering their patients assessed as FI thru the POS beyond the 72 hour requirement or sometimes even a month after discharge. The POS is a program provided in the Government Appropriations Act (GAA) for the current year, to cover all Filipinos under the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP), including the unregistered and inactive registered members especially those who are financially incapable. Filipino citizens who will be covered under the POS Program, must be admitted in a ward type of accommodation  and classified as financially incapable to pay his/her PhilHealth contribution accord...

 In June, the Commission on Audit (COA) transmitted a copy of the results of the audit of the accounts and transactions of Pag-IBIG Fund for the year 2018. State auditors gave Pag-IBIG Fund an unmodified opinion, which is the best opinion that a government agency or corporation can receive from COA.  “The Auditor rendered an unmodified opinion on the fairness of the presentation of the financial statements of HDMF (Home Development Mutual Fund) for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017,” read the letter of Director Ma. Lisa P. Inguillo, officer-in-charge of COA’s Social Security Services and Housing Cluster. “For the seventh consecutive year, COA has granted on Pag-IBIG Fund its highest opinion on our financial statements. This milestone is yet another proof that Pag-IBIG Fund is working hard to serve our members while maintaining the integrity and sustainability of the Filipino workers’ fund which is in line with President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s directive for all gove...

 Multi-Purpose Loans in Q1 2019; 571,681 members assisted In the first three months of 2019, Pag-IBIG Fund disbursed a record-high P 11.67 billion in multi-purpose loans (MPL), otherwise known as cash loans, to assist 571,681 members. MPL disbursement for the first quarter of 2019 registered a 7 percent year-on-year growth and exceeded the P10.92 billion released in the same period last year by P 751 million. The amount of cash loans and number of members assisted by the agency through its MPL program are both the highest for any January-March period.  “We are exerting all efforts to help Pag-IBIG members following the directive of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte to provide Filipinos with affordable loans so that they will not resort to loan sharks. In the first quarter of 2019, MPL disbursements helped 571,681 members with their immediate financial needs,” said Secretary Eduardo D. del Rosario, Chairperson of the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) an...

June 19, 2019 Reacting to a series of articles that PhilHealth is plagued by fraud and corruption, PhilHealth denounced in strongest terms the seemingly orchestrated efforts of people within and outside the Corporation to destroy the name of PhilHealth and undermine its efforts in fraud identification and control. The truth behind the allegations There have been and there may be fraudulent activities at present that have been detected by the Corporation. But to say that PhilHealth has not been taking action is an utter lie. The Corporation has filed at least 13 criminal complaints against providers now pending in the Courts, approx. 200 cases against erring employers, 27 cases of unethical behavior of its provider doctors before the Professional Regulation Commission. Charges before PhilHealth’s Arbitration office against 81 facilities and 26 doctors and more than 271 facilities and 206 doctors are facing preliminary investigation. PhilHealth has revoked the accreditati...

June 10, 2019 “No mafia can survive in the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) under the watch of Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.”  Thus declared PhilHealth acting president and CEO Dr. Roy Ferrer, laughing off the imagined fears of a former PhilHealth staff working with the past administration. Dr. Ferrer scored a certain Minguita Padilla, erstwhile head executive staff of a former Health Secretary under the government of former President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino.  “The loser's mind and defeatist attitude of Ms. Padilla cite ‘a culture of fear’ in PhilHealth, but that was the PhilHealth of the past,”  Ferrer pointed out,  “and such fear and trembling no longer exist in the present PhilHealth and under the strong government of President Duterte." In a fast-breaking development, President Duterte was quoted by a television network saying,  “I do not have the slightest doubt on the integrity and honesty of PhilHealth Presid...

June 4, 2019 PhilHealth EVP/COO Ruben John A. Basa, Health Secretary Duque, PhilHealth Acting SVP and Concurrent Vice President Nerissa R. Santiago, Finance Secretary Dominguez, and DOF Undersecretary and Chief Economist Karl Kendrick T. Chua show their fist-fight-stance against 'Yosi Kadiri.' With the signing of Republic Act 11223 better known as the “Universal Health Care (UHC) Act of 2019” by President Rodrigo R. Duterte on February 20, 2019, the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth), the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Finance (DOF) have joined together in a press briefing to reiterate the need for the Senate to act swiftly on the pending bill on excise tax rates on tobacco and alcohol products. The Sin Tax law approved in 2012 restructured today's existing taxes imposed on alcohol and tobacco goods. Duties on these products have become a revenue source that help fund the UHC program. Said program, by design, aims to be a...

The International Placement Service of the German Federal Employment Agency (ZAV/BA) is in urgent need of qualified applicants to fill up 350 nursing positions in various health care facilities in Germany. Qualified applicants must be Filipino citizen, male or female, and permanent resident of the Philippines with Bachelor of Science in Nursing, active Philippine Nursing License and at least two years related professional experience (bedside) in hospitals, rehabilitation centers and/or care institutions.  Applicants must have German language proficiency or willing to undergo German language training in the Philippines to attain Level B1 (to be paid by the employer) and must be able to attend the language class in April and May 2019; or with Bl or B2 Language Proficiency Level in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Successful candidates shall have a starting monthly salary of 2,000 euros (gross) that will be increased to € 2,400 after recog...