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JV Ejercito to OFWs: Treat Universal Health Care law as 'investment'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 29 12:45 PM

Overseas Filipino workers should look at the Universal Healthcare Law as an investment and not an expense, former Senator JV Ejercito said Friday.   Read more »

PhilHealth denies overpricing COVID-19 testing packages

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 25 05:56 PM

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing packages in the Philippines are not overpriced but are driven by market-dictated prevailing rates, the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) said Monday. Read more »

Local supplier overpricing COVID-19 kits, machines says former Health chief

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 25 12:06 AM

She said that the local supplier also padded the cost of these medical equipment by up to three times the manufacturers’ price and had been hoarding the testing kits and machines. Read more »

Palace to look into allegedly overpriced PhilHealth COVID-19 test packages

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 21 03:28 PM

The Office of the Special Assistant to the President will look into the allegedly overpriced COVID-19 testing packages of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), Malacañang said Thursday. Read more »

PhilHealth to change cost of 'overpriced' COVID-19 test packages

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 21 12:36 AM

The Philippine Health Insurance Corp on Wednesday said it will adjust the prices of its COVID-19 testing packages to reflect more recent data, noting that the "overpriced" P8,150 bundle was based on test kit prices earlier this year. Read more »

Tulong panawagan para kay Baby Kobe, pinakabatang COVID-19 survivor, na naospital muli

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 13 11:49 AM

MAYNILA - Nananawagan ngayon ng tulong ang ama ng sanggol na napapaulat na pinakabatang kaso ng coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) matapos maospital ang kanilang sanggol gawa ng komplikasyon.    Read more »

PhilHealth contribution ng mga OFW, boluntaryo na

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 04 10:04 PM

Ipinag-utos ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na gawing boluntaryo ang pagbabayad ng PhilHealth premium ng mga OFW.  Read more »

PhilHealth says 'no basis' for UST Hospital P180 million claim

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 04 05:52 PM

The claim of the University of Santo Tomas Hospital (USTH) that PhilHealth owes it P180 million has "no basis," the state health insurance agency said Monday. Read more »

PhilHealth sinuspinde ang pangongolekta ng kontribusyon sa gitna ng batikos

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 04 08:29 PM

Bago nito, binatikos ang PhilHealth dahil sa direktiba nitong maghulog ang mga OFW nang 3 porsyento ng kanilang buwanang suweldo para sa PhilHealth coverage ngayong taon, mula sa dating 2.75 porsiyento.   Read more »

Duterte orders PhilHealth to make premium payments voluntary for OFWs

Arianne Merez, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 04 02:06 PM

The directive comes after thousands signed an online petition protesting PhilHealth premium rate hikes for the OFWs. Read more »

PhilHealth says collections suspended as rate hike for OFWs draws ire

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 04 10:36 AM

The state insurance corporation said Monday it had temporarily suspended all collections as opposition swelled against its premium rate increase for millions of overseas Filipino Workers.    Read more »

The ANC Brief: Jinggoy 'arrested'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 04 04:34 AM

Two areas in Metro Manila are under total or hard lockdown. Here are the stories making the headlines on ANC today. Read more »

'Bakit ginagatasan?': OFWs pumalag sa dagdag-kontribusyon ng PhilHealth

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 03 08:57 PM

Sa isang online petition, sinabi ng mga OFW na unfair o hindi patas ang bagong direktiba at lalo raw pasakit sa kanila ito ngayong may COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »

UST Hospital retrenches amid losses from COVID-19, says Philhealth owes it P180-M

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of May 03 10:59 PM

The University of Santo Tomas Hospital has retrenched its workers due to financial losses amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Read more »

'They will not benefit at all': Locsin hits hike in OFWs' PhilHealth contribution rate

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 03 02:04 PM

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Sunday said the increased PhilHealth premium for overseas Filipino workers are among government fees for which they would not "benefit at all." Read more »

Angara says COVID-19 hospital bill amounted to P400,000

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Apr 23 08:17 PM

Coronavirus survivor and Sen. Sonny Angara on Thursday said he his hospital bill for "8 to 9 days" of confinement due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) amounted to nearly half a million pesos. Read more »

Daughter of late Sen. Heherson Alvarez sets records straight on parents’ staggering hospital bills

ANCX
Posted at Apr 22 09:52 PM

Xilca Alvarez-Protacio apologizes over brother’s honest error, pleads for understanding. By ANCX Read more »

Alvarez daughter corrects, apologizes for brother’s mistake on late father’s COVID-19 hospital bill

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 22 08:53 PM

MANILA - The daughter of former Sen. Heherson Alvarez, who succumbed to COVID-19, apologized on Wednesday for her brother's 'honest error' on the cost of their father's hospitalization, saying that P8 million is "factually incorrect." Read more »

Letter of apology from Sen. Alvarez's daughter to ABS-CBN: Dad's hospital bill not P8 million

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 22 03:43 PM

Editor's note: ABS-CBN News is publishing this letter from the daughter of the late Sen. Heherson Alvarez, Xilca Alvarez-Protacio, rectifying what her brother, Hexilon, said in an interview with DZMM on April 21, 2020 that their father's hospital bill had reached P8 million. Read more »

Late Sen. Heherson Alvarez's hospital bill reached almost P5 million: daughter

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Apr 22 08:23 PM

The hospital bill of former Sen. Heherson Alvarez, who succumbed to COVID-19 on Monday, amounted to some P8 million, his eldest child said Tuesday. Read more »