{"id":987524517,"date":"2021-06-02T03:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T02:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/the-impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-social-health-insurance-claims-for-high-burden-diseases-in-the-philippines\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:22:21","slug":"the-impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-social-health-insurance-claims-for-high-burden-diseases-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/the-impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-social-health-insurance-claims-for-high-burden-diseases-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Social Health Insurance Claims for High-Burden Diseases in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the Philippines, anecdotes on the dwindling use of essential healthcare services as an indirect consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic are mounting, but compelling evidence remains scarce. In this study, we examined the magnitude of decline in insurance claims of twelve (12) high-burden diseases and five (5) common procedures from 1,286 public and private hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>From March to September 2020, seasonally adjusted insurance claims for high-burden diseases declined by almost 60 percent compared to the previous year. In contrast, change in insurance claims for procedures vary across hospital type, level, and ownership.<\/p>\n<p>CGDev observed a 30 percent decline in claims for procedures in publicly owned end referral hospitals but with modest growth in lower-level hospitals. Less urgent procedures such as cataract surgery suffered a huge decline relative to chemotherapy, vaginal delivery, and cesarean sections. Governments must address the needs of both COVID and non-COVID patients to reduce the total harm caused by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><em>You may download the working paper from the Documents Section of this page or <a href=\"https:\/\/p4h.world\/system\/files\/2021-06\/impact-covid-19-pandemic-social-health-insurance-claims-high-burden-diseases-philippines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credits: <a href=\"https:\/\/labblog.uofmhealth.org\/sites\/lab\/files\/2016-11\/UMH_L_SOCIALMD%401x.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health Lab&nbsp;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract In the Philippines, anecdotes on the dwindling use of essential healthcare services as an indirect consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic are mounting, but compelling evidence remains scarce. In this study, we examined the magnitude of decline in insurance claims of twelve (12) high-burden diseases and five (5) common procedures from 1,286 public and private&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":987530470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524517"}],"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=987524517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987524517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987530470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987524517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987524517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987524517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}