Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri bared on Tuesday more schemes allegedly being used to defraud the Philippines Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) of millions of government funds. Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri (Senate of the Philippines /
Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri bared on Tuesday more schemes allegedly being used to defraud the Philippines Health Insurance Corporation of millions of government funds.At the resumption of the Senate’s investigation into the alleged anomalies in PhilHealth, Zubiri expounded on his recent discovery of some “fraudulent schemes” in the government insurance firm.
“How can an 18-bed hospital have so much patients? I was told by my insider these are what they called the non-existing patients, not only ghosts, but not existing at all,” he said. “Some provincial primary hospitals were once inspected by surprise by investigators from PhilHealth. Checking the logbook of the patients and inspecting the rooms and beds where the patients supposedly were, they found that the patients were not there,” he said in his presentation.
Aside from these, Zubiri also alleged that some PhilHealth officials have been asking for kickback from hospitals that are asking for rebates. “Supreme Court and Court of Appeals final decisions on suspension of hospitals have remained unimplemented or ignored by PhilHealth,” he said.
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