Philippine Health Insurance Corporation

It remained, however, within the P1.66 trillion gap program for 2026.

The increase in August was driven by a 16% year-on-year spike in expenditures, mainly due to the settlement of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation's arrears, while revenue collections declined due to lower non-tax revenues, the Treasury said in a statement.

The year-to-date budget balance remained in deficit at P1.05 trillion, markedly higher than the P869.2 billion recorded in January to August 2025.

Expenditures totaled P507.3 billion in August, up 16% from the year-earlier P437.3 billion, while revenues slipped 1.85% to P346 billion from P352.5 billion.

right favoritism maybe um let's talk about this justice so nasan on the field health issue on the on program funds um you have raised issues uh someone some buy in particular Local Government Support Fund, LGSF, right? Some people are saying, is this a soft pork barrel? Is this a shadow pork barrel? What's going on here,

Justice? Well, we already won the PhilHealth case.

The 60 billion that was transferred from PhilHealth has been returned.

We are working on the PDIC because PDIC transferred 107 billion and there is a soft promise to return it, but it was lodged in the unprogrammed funds of 2027 budget.

That means, I mean, it's just a wishful thinking because if it's unprogrammed, almost 99.9 percent it cannot be funded unless you transfer from the from other sources from other sources like phil health or from yeah so uh we will not be happy of course if they will not put it in the program appropriations you will go to the supreme court right ask the supreme and you're confident just like last time because there is no other way but to return that money because it's unconstitutional

gigs, like multiple clients.

If that's the case, they typically register themselves as freelancers, right? And then they pay for their SSS, Philadelphia.

But in our case, where you're working 40 hours a week for one international company and we are your outsourcing partner, we're the employer on record, we make sure you get paid twice a month.

You can't just get fired for no reason.

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SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-Ibig.

So that's what you, I think you solve for international operators.

Correct.

Availability and coverage vary by state and insurance plan.

Revamp of PhilHealth autism package sought.

Senator Joel Villanueva urged the Department of Health, DOH, and Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, PhilHealth, on Tuesday to overhaul the government's autism spectrum disorder, ASD, benefit package.

A promise on paper is not the same as help in hand.

In eight years, this benefit has reached only 482 families, the senator said, stressing the wide gap between health benefits on paper and actual access to care.

Villanueva initially raised the issue during a Senate briefing on the agency's proposed 2027 budgets, questioning whether the P74.449 billion National Health Insurance Program subsidy would translate into meaningful assistance for Filipinos with ASD and other developmental disabilities.

PhilHealth President and CEO Dr. Beverly Lorraine Ho said that the ASD benefit package has been available since 2017 but utilization remains extremely low, largely because only five facilities nationwide are accredited to provide the covered services.

Villanueva questioned the adequacy of the package, which covers up to 90 therapy sessions, while its assessment component is valued at only P3,000 to P5,000, an amount he said falls far short of the actual cost of obtaining an ASD diagnosis.

The president expressed his confidence in Pacquiao's leadership in intensifying the government's anti-poverty efforts, advancing social reform, and bringing programs and services closer to communities nationwide, the palace said.

Revamp of PhilHealth autism package sought.

Senator Joel Villanueva urged the Department of Health, DOH, and Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, PhilHealth, on Tuesday to overhaul the government's Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD, benefit package.

Villanueva initially raised the issue during a Senate briefing on the agency's proposed 2027 budgets, questioning whether the P74.449 billion National Health Insurance Program subsidy would translate into meaningful assistance for Filipinos with ASD and other developmental disabilities.

PhilHealth President and CEO Dr. Beverly Lorraine Ho said that the ASD benefit package has been available since 2017 but utilization remains extremely low, largely because only five facilities nationwide are accredited to provide the covered services.

Business, jobless rate climbs to 6%.

unemployment accelerated to 6.0% in July from 4.9% a month earlier, the Philippine Statistics Authority, PSA, reported on Tuesday, signaling renewed labor market pressures amid global and domestic uncertainties.

So number one is our biennial floor.

This ward where rooms are very affordable, fully covered by PhilHealth.

We've managed to really use these rooms quite extensively now, or this floor for patients.

In fact, we've even struck a partnership with the Philippine General Hospital for the breast cancer patients who have been waiting for surgery for over three months.

We welcome the feedback.

But one of the things that we're really very keen on delivering always is you get the right service that you deserve.

And whatever you pay for it, be it through PhilHealth, be it personal, be it HMO, it's worth

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In the first, a family consisting of working parents, both with good incomes that would be considered on the upper end of the middle class spectrum, two young children, and an elderly grandmother who served as caretaker of the children for the working, Parents experienced a personal calamity when grandmother was stricken by two strokes in a short period of time.

While the insurance coverage provided by PhilHealth did cover good hospital treatment and follow-up visits to the doctor for grandmother, with the remaining expenses not covered being easily managed by the working parents' own resources, she was left disabled and in need of proper physical therapy to recover some of her mobility and ability to function normally, such as using the bathroom or bathing on her own.

Finding that visits from properly trained and licensed home nursing or physical therapy providers were prohibitively expensive and not covered by the PhilHealth insurance available to them, the parents resorted to the services of a recommended neighborhood helot, whose care, while helpful, was inadequate.

grandmother passed away within a couple months.

In the second example, a family consisting of two elderly parents, both collecting SSS pensions and covered by PhilHealth, and three adult children whose combined incomes put the family into upper-class status by Philippine standards, found themselves financially challenged by the elderly father's diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, a debilitating and incurable condition.

He was, within a relatively short period of time, rendered completely disabled and requiring constant assistance for basic living functions, but with the parents' PhilHealth and the children's own PhilHealth or private health insurance not offering home health care coverage, the family took up the task of caring for him on their own.

As Parkinson's is a progressive disease, this eventually became too difficult despite their yeoman-like efforts, and the elderly father sadly passed away, pH aging more quickly.

We have no doubt that these examples are familiar to thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of Filipino families, and it is a potential public health crisis that must be addressed.