{"id":42602,"date":"2015-02-17T01:02:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=42602"},"modified":"2015-02-17T01:02:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T17:02:46","slug":"philhealth-eyes-php94-b-payment-for-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/17\/philhealth-eyes-php94-b-payment-for-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"PhilHealth eyes Php94-B payment for healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40882\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/philhealth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40882 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/philhealth-e1424106155773.jpg\" alt=\"Philhealth Facebook page\" width=\"444\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/philhealth-e1424106155773.jpg 444w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/philhealth-e1424106155773-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philhealth Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TACLOBAN CITY\u00a0 &#8212; The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is eyeing a Php94 billion payment to its members in 2015, up by Php13 billion from what the state firm have paid for health care last year.<\/p>\n<p>In a press briefing here Saturday afternoon, Alexander Padilla, PhilHealth president and chief executive officer, said that expense for healthcare have been consistently growing in the past years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been paying Php1.6 billion a week in 2014 from less than P500 million a week in 2010,\u201d Padilla told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half or Php37 billion of the budget for payment will be sourced out from the 80 percent incremental value of sin taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The increased payment can be attributed to recent expansion of mandatory national health insurance coverage to include poorest families and senior citizens.<\/p>\n<p>On November 2014, President Benigno S. C. Aquino III signed a law mandating an automatic membership of all Filipinos 60 years and older. For this year, Padilla said that about three million elderly will be listed as beneficiaries of lifetime coverage.<\/p>\n<p>PhilHealth is also stepping up the implementation of points of service program where non-enrolled poor families can sign up for health insurance even during hospital confinement.<\/p>\n<p>As of end of last year, 82 million of the 100 million Filipinos are PhilHealth members.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge, according to Padilla, is the coverage of informal sector, indigenous people, and overseas Filipino workers not registered with the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TACLOBAN CITY\u00a0 &#8212; The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is eyeing a Php94 billion payment to its members in 2015, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ph","mauthors-sarwell-q-meniano","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42602","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=42602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}