'You know, there are many good people at PhilHealth.... These are the people I would like to protect,' says PhilHealth chief Ricardo Morales.
Ricardo Morales, president and CEO of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation , defended himself and his fellow executives from accusations of corruption, insisting all the evidence presented in a Senate probe can be explained.
For example, PhilHealth chief information officer Jovita Aragona reiterated that the 15 CISCO network switches they were proposing to buy for P320,000 apiece were not at all overpriced. The IRM is a program that advances the reimbursement of members' insurance claims to hospitals and clinics directly hit by"fortuitous events," supposedly cutting the long queue and tedious bureaucratic process. It was one of the controversial items that came out of the Senate probe.The PhilHealth officials, particularly Morales, had failed to convince the senators.
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