MANILA, Philippines — Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said on Tuesday that President Rodrigo Duterte has set a personal 10-day deadline to get to the bottom of the mess in the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth). In that period, Duque said that the President would look into the challenges facing PhilHealth and “mull over what he thinks might have caused the problems” in the state insurance firm. Duque said that chief operating officer Ruben Basa would temporarily take over the firm’s operations, as ordered by the President. They also used the global estimate of a 10-percent loss to healthcare insurance fraud to project a P51.2-billion loss. He admitted though that the fraudulent practices of some hospitals and doctors could not have prospered without collusion with erring officials.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 11, 2019 11:26 UTC