Ledesma said it is the intention of PhilHealth leadership to recommend a decrease in contributions, pursuant to a pending Senate measure aiming to reduce the rate from five percent to 3.25 percent.

Go said PhilHealth should not delay reforms resulting in excessive reserve funds. "If you only set aside what is legally required for reserve funds, that should be sufficient," the senator added.

A group, led by Senator Aquilino Pimentel III and former Finance Undersecretary Cielo Mango, called on the members of the Bicameral Conference Committee to restore PhilHealth’s budget of P150.92 ...

PhilHealth also issued a statement on Monday, December 16, assuring the public that “all PhilHealth benefits will continue to be paid and will even improve.” How the P284 billion will be used ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) still has a P150-billion surplus from its 2024 budget even if it was given zero subsidy in 2025. The Department of ...

Ledesma said that as of October 2024, PhilHealth has a surplus of P150 billion and a total reserve of P281 billion, complemented by an investment fund nearing P489 billion as of November 2024. "These ...

Meron po. Napakalaki po ang [ia-approve] na budget ng Board ng PhilHealth. P284 billion po ang budget for 2025. Ang nawala po ay government subsidy,” Herbosa said. (It's wrong to say that PhilHealth ...

MANILA, Philippines — State medical insurer PhilHealth will receive no government subsidy in the proposed 2025 national budget, the bicameral conference committee announced on Wednesday ...

PhilHealth was doing the transfer in tranches last year — P20 billion was sent back in May, P10 billion in August, and P30 billion in October.

Last year, PhilHealth paid P3.59 billion for Konsulta claims—89 percent of which were at government facilities—or a mere 2 percent of the P164 billion in claims paid by the insurer in 2024 ...

MANILA, Philippines – Supreme Court (SC) justices are expected to further scrutinize how the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is spending its money when the third round of ...

Members readmitted due to the same illness in a span of 90 days can now avail of PhilHealth benefits after the state health insurer lifted its Single Period of Confinement policy beginning October ...