{"id":220454,"date":"2019-06-26T19:53:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T23:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=220454"},"modified":"2019-06-26T19:53:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T23:53:57","slug":"philhealth-ghost-claims-whistleblowers-now-state-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/26\/philhealth-ghost-claims-whistleblowers-now-state-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"PhilHealth \u2018ghost claims\u2019 whistleblowers now state witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_220455\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220455\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D8xLOffUIAAOu2p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-220455\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D8xLOffUIAAOu2p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D8xLOffUIAAOu2p.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D8xLOffUIAAOu2p-768x641.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-220455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sy has been charged before the courts by the NBI with multiple counts of estafa through falsification of public documents. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnagovph\/status\/1138367527384375296\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnagovph\/\">@pnagovph\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The two whistleblowers on the ghost dialysis claims scam hounding the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) have been provisionally admitted to the government&#8217;s Witness Protection Program (WPP).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They have been provisionally admitted into the WPP (witness protection program), good for 90 days, pending investigation,&#8221; Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra told reporters, referring to Edwin Roberto and Leizel de Leon.<\/p>\n<p>Roberto, who used to be the assistant manager of WellMed Dialysis and Laboratory Center, claimed in his sworn statement that it was WellMed co-owner Brian Sy himself who ordered him on March 30, 2016 to try to charge PhilHealth with claims of two dead patients amounting to PHP2,600.<\/p>\n<p>It was allegedly de Leon whom he instructed to prepare the forms.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his resignation in March 2018, Roberto revealed that the state-run social health insurance firm paid WellMed a total of PHP600,600 consisting of 200 sessions for dead patients.<\/p>\n<p>Sy has been charged before the courts by the NBI with multiple counts of estafa through falsification of public documents.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary probe for estafa and falsification of public documents against WellMed executives Dr. John Ray Gonzales, medical director; Claro Sy, chairman; Alvin Sy, corporate treasurer; Therese Francesca Tan, purchasing officer; Dick Ong, administration officer; and physicians Dr. Porshia Natividad and Joemie Soriano remain pending.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Guevarra said Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III has reiterated his readiness to work with government investigators to ensure that there will be no stones unturned in looking into a scam by unscrupulous organizations and individuals preying on the state social health insurance firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The two whistleblowers on the ghost dialysis claims scam hounding the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) have been provisionally &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":220455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-benjamin-pulta","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220454","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220456,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220454\/revisions\/220456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}