SP Escudero, tiwalang kayang bawasan ng PhilHealth ang monthly contribution ng kanilang mga miyembro; Single Period of Confinement Policy, inalis na ng PhilHealth

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00:00Some senators have called for the use of the funds to help those in need.

00:06The Philippine Health Insurance Fund still has P7,000.

00:10This is Daniel Manalastas, Serton, for the news.

00:15For Senate President Francis Escudero,

00:17the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation

00:21will be able to fulfill the mandatory contribution

00:23that their members are paying

00:25due to the large amount of unutilized funds or non-expenses in the past year.

00:30However, PhilHealth still lacks more than P500 billion

00:35which is a lot of money that can be absorbed

00:37for the payment of the monthly premium.

00:40So for Mr. Escudero, it's better to use that money

00:43to help our countrymen by adding medical services

00:48or lowering the amount of money they need to pay.

00:51Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Health discussed

00:53the transfer of PhilHealth's large amount of funds.

00:56They said that they made a decision on September 27

00:59to remove the rule on single period of confinement.

01:03This will take effect October 1, 2024, Mr. Chairperson.

01:08And the policy will be published on October 7, 2024.

01:15And this will have a retroactive effect effective October 1, 2024.

01:22The policy based on the office of the Senate Committee on Health Chairperson Bong Go

01:27was first implemented in 2013

01:29and it prohibits patients from receiving multiple claims

01:32for hospital admissions.

01:34According to Go, it affects the poor who rely on PhilHealth's help.

01:39You will be able to increase your services and medicines.

01:43You will see that the pharmacy is there, the dental is there,

01:47just the support.

01:49According to PhilHealth, there are also case rates

01:52for emergency treatment.

01:54That's why they promised...

01:55We said December of 2024,

01:58we will release the policy on the emergency care.

02:02So we are already developing this, Mr. Chairperson.

02:04We're already there.

02:06Three months from now,

02:07we'll come up with this policy on emergency care.

02:11This emergency outpatient will be removed.

02:16I mean, will it be covered?

02:18So when they go to the hospital,

02:21they don't need to be admitted for 24 hours

02:27to be covered by PhilHealth

02:29for what they will pay in the hospital?

02:33Is this right?

02:34Yes, Mr. Chairperson. We commit to that.

02:36Go is expediting PhilHealth

02:38with the number of emergency outpatient cases

02:41that are not being covered at the moment.

02:43Daniel Manalastas for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.

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