PhilHealth justifies biggest COVID-19 reimbursement for Davao City hospital. Full story:
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation defended its decision to give the lion’s share of the reimbursement for coronavirus treatments to a hospital in Davao City – even if cases there are far fewer than in Metro Manila, the epicenter of the pandemic in the country.
PhilHealth senior vice president for health finance and policy sector Israel Francis Pargas then said SPMC got the largest IRM share because it recorded the highest number of historical claims in 2019. In a separate briefing with reporters on Wednesday, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire clarified that the IRM was computed before the COVID-19 pandemic happened.
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