{"id":11389,"date":"2014-05-21T23:30:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11389"},"modified":"2014-05-21T23:30:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:30:26","slug":"palace-philhealth-expediting-release-of-reimbursement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/21\/palace-philhealth-expediting-release-of-reimbursement\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace: PhilHealth expediting release of reimbursement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11418\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PhilHealth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11418\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PhilHealth.jpg\" alt=\"PhilHealth. Photo courtesy of doh.gov.ph\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PhilHealth.jpg 480w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/PhilHealth-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PhilHealth. Photo courtesy of doh.gov.ph<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The government is committed to fast-track the release of reimbursement for private hospitals for their services to Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) members, Malacanang said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government will not renege on that obligation,\u201d assured Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda in a Palace press briefing amid a plan of the Private Hospitals Association of the Philippines (PHAPi) not to honor benefits of PhilHealth patients due to delayed reimbursement.<\/p>\n<p>Lacierda attributed the delayed processing to a new payment scheme undertaken by PhilHealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about management, it\u2019s about the payment system because we shifted to a case-based payment system so there are some glitches we need to address&#8230; The offices are adjusting (to the new scheme),\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Lacierda said that reimbursement process normally takes 60 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they are committing to pay it faster than the normal 60 days,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>To squarely address the problem, Lacierda said the government is in constant discussion with PHAPi president Dr. Rustico Jimenez and some other hospital officials concerned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dSo we will look into it on a case-to-case, per hospital-based discussions,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The government is committed to fast-track the release of reimbursement for private hospitals for their services to Philippine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,95],"tags":[3776,3819],"class_list":["post-11389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news-ph","tag-philhealth","tag-reimbursements","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}