THE Metropolitan Trial Court in Pasig City has convicted a hospital clerk on 46 counts of falsification of documents stemming from the fraudulent hemodialysis claims involving deceased patients at the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth).
THE Metropolitan Trial Court in Pasig City has convicted a hospital clerk on 46 counts of falsification of documents stemming from the fraudulent hemodialysis claims involving deceased patients at the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation .
He was sentenced to an indeterminate penalty of imprisonment ranging from six months to three years and ordered to pay a fine of P50,000 per count, with subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency.TriHDCare handles the operations of the hemodialysis unit of the TriCity Medical Center. The DOJ held that all elements of estafa were absent in the complaint and the three physicians were able to sufficiently establish that they did not participate in the falsification of claim documents submitted to PhilHealth.
In his testimony, Ordinal claimed that Rances, who was employed as a Philhealth clerk in the hemodialysis unit of Tricity Medical Center, had falsified Claim Signature Forms , PhilHealth Benefit Eligibility Forms , and the Statements of Account and submitted false claims with PhilHealth, pertaining to the alleged treatments received by 12 former patients of the hemodialysis unit of TriCity Med.
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