{"id":987521984,"date":"2021-05-07T03:10:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T02:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/philhealth-coverage-of-claims-payment-scheme-expanded\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:24:49","slug":"philhealth-coverage-of-claims-payment-scheme-expanded","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/philhealth-coverage-of-claims-payment-scheme-expanded\/","title":{"rendered":"PhilHealth Coverage of Claims Payment Scheme Expanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s pandemic response managers have expanded the coverage of the claims payment program of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philhealth.gov.ph\/news\/2021\/provides_funds.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth)<\/a> to include hospitals in all high-risk and critical areas in the country.<\/p>\n<p>PhilHealth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2021\/04\/24\/2093384\/philhealth-settle-hospital-claims-through-debit-credit-payment#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20PhilHealth%20circular%20released%20this%20month%2C,percent%20expanded%20withholding%20tax%20for%20private%20eligible%20facilities.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Debit-Credit Payment Method (DCPM)<\/a> is intended to facilitate the settlements of accounts payable to healthcare facilities to ensure the continuous delivery of health services during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iatf.doh.gov.ph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF)&nbsp;<\/a>said the DCPM scheme would be applicable to high-risk and critical areas.&nbsp;The decision comes amid complaints from private hospitals that PhilHealth has yet to settle their unpaid health claims during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is an extract from the new report originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1423149\/philhealth-coverage-of-claims-payment-scheme-expanded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inquirer.net<\/a>. Read the entire report <a href=\"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/1423149\/philhealth-coverage-of-claims-payment-scheme-expanded\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credits: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadianinquirer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/philhealth.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Inquirer.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Have anything to say about hospital coverage by PhilHealth for COVID-19? Please let us know in the comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government\u2019s pandemic response managers have expanded the coverage of the claims payment program of Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to include hospitals in all high-risk and critical areas in the country. PhilHealth\u2019s Debit-Credit Payment Method (DCPM) is intended to facilitate the settlements of accounts payable to healthcare facilities to ensure the continuous delivery of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987521984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987521984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987521984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987521984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987521984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}