The DOH and Calabarzon executives said some COVID-19 patients turned away due to delayed reimbursements from the state health insurer. | maricarcincoINQ
“Some labs have scaled down [their testing] by accepting only [the specimens of] paying [patients]. We’ve heard complaints, too, about labs refusing [to test PhilHealth cases], while others prefer not to be accredited by PhilHealth dahil ’di nababayaran ,” Janairo said.
Imus City, which paid for the molecular laboratory it set up at its hospital, conducts RT-PCR tests at an average of 900 a day on samples collected locally, from the adjacent city of Bacoor and from as far as Quezon province. The test of a non-PhilHealth member costs about P4,000. “That’s why I feel bad when we hear about all these billions of pesos of PhilHealth,” Maliksi said, referring to issues that some PhilHealth officials had pocketed P15 billion of insurance money.
Janairo said the DOH would allocate P3.5 million of DOH fund to Ospital ng Imus so it could keep on testing PhilHealth members, while waiting for the refund.
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