{"id":264402,"date":"2020-08-07T00:38:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T04:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=264402"},"modified":"2020-08-07T00:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T04:47:47","slug":"philhealth-execs-told-to-fix-info-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/07\/philhealth-execs-told-to-fix-info-system\/","title":{"rendered":"PhilHealth execs told to fix info system"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_204928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204928\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12994564_1115766561821355_2091143319273445715_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-204928 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12994564_1115766561821355_2091143319273445715_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12994564_1115766561821355_2091143319273445715_n.jpg 520w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/12994564_1115766561821355_2091143319273445715_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominguez said PhilHealth officials claim the agency spent about PHP2.1 billion for their information system \u201cwhen in fact, they spent close to PHP200 billion.\u201d (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilHealthofficial\/photos\/a.261644413900245\/1115766561821355\/?type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PhilHealthofficial\/\">Philippine Health Insurance Corporation\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2013 Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III on Thursday said officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) have been asked to put in order their questionable information system since October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>During the joint briefing of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and the inter-agency Development Budget and Coordination Committee (DBCC), Dominguez said Department of Finance (DOF) officials cannot make secure projections on PhilHealth\u2019s fund life, or the period wherein their funds can finance their expenses and liabilities as its information system is not fit for this.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir information system is and I\u2019ve used this term publicly, is in shambles. And we\u2019ve pointed this out to them since October of last year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dominguez said PhilHealth officials claim the agency spent about PHP2.1 billion for their information system \u201cwhen in fact, they spent close to PHP200 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they have no way or their information system is not robust enough to capture all the data,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>If the state agency that was tasked to implement universal health coverage for the country will have a good information system, the DOF would be able to make not just a one-year projection but a 10-year projection for PhilHealth\u2019s fund life, Dominguez said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of now, I will take their word that probably by 2021 or late 2021 or late 2022 they may run out of money and that is why, we have in our budget for this year. I believe it is around PHP70 (billion) or around PHP80 billion to subsidize PhilHealth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dominguez, however, said \u201cin the long term, we have to fix up the administration of PhilHealth in order to be able to get a good handle of what exactly their liabilities and fund life are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PhilHealth officials said the agency\u2019s funds are now short especially because of the expenses of members who got hospitalized due to the coronavirus disease pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III on Thursday said officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) have been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":204928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-joann-villanueva","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264402","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=264402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264403,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264402\/revisions\/264403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}