Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 21:30:54 +0000
With four dead patients, WellMed Dialysis Center allegedly kick-started its “ghost dialysis” scheme that took advantage of a loophole
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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 13:59:57 +0000
The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) should explain how it implements its budget after a report came out that it had been paying for “ghost” kidney treatments, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Saturday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 06:42:25 +0000
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon has appealed to the Commission on Audit (COA) to conduct a “special audit” on PhilHealth.
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Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:16:46 +0000
President Duterte has ordered the arrest of owners of dialysis centers who were implicated in the so-called “ghost dialysis” treatment scam.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:36:39 +0000
PhilHealth said its finances were “robust” and it was going after erring hospitals and health professionals.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:34:50 +0000
COA has reported that the Lung Center of the Philippines did not refund a total of P22.6 million in benefit payments to patients who are members of PhilHealth.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:32:28 +0000
President Duterte has PhilHealth to file charges against those involved in the so-called ghost dialysis treatments.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:30:24 +0000
The fraud in the health care providers will not proliferate, continue, flourish unless they have some help from the inside.
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 08:14:07 +0000
President Duterte has ordered PhilHealth to file criminal charges against people behind the ghost dialysis treatments, Malacañang said Friday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 21:32:22 +0000
PhilHealth said it had filed 28 administrative complaints against the private dialysis center in Novaliches.
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