{"id":17914,"date":"2025-12-18T01:49:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=17914"},"modified":"2025-12-18T01:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:49:12","slug":"marcos-extends-filing-of-hospital-claims-to-120-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/marcos-extends-filing-of-hospital-claims-to-120-days\/","title":{"rendered":"MARCOS EXTENDS FILING OF HOSPITAL CLAIMS TO 120 DAYS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Health (DOH) to extend the period of filing hospital claims with the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) from 60 days to 120 days to address reimbursement delays experienced by some health facilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a press briefing on Wednesday, Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Undersecretary and Palace Press Officer Claire Castro said President Marcos ordered the \u201cclaims flexibility\u201d to give hospitals more time to complete the documents required by PhilHealth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>President Marcos issued the directive in light of the reported more than P1 billion worth of return-to-hospital (RTH) claims that have not been paid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIpinag-utos din ng Pangulo na i-extend ang maaaring period para makapag-claim ang ibang ospital, na-extend ito up to 120 days,\u201d Castro said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIto iyong tinatawag na claims flexibility at dahil dito ay natutugunan ng DOH, ng PhilHealth ang kanilang mga obligasyon. Basta ang nais lang din natin, ang mga ospital ay makapagbigay ng kanilang mga dokumento sa tamang oras at panahon,\u201d Castro added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Palace Press Officer said the DOH attributed the returned PhilHealth claims to the hospitals\u2019 failure to submit complete documents within the prescribed 60-day period.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cPatungkol diumano sa mga hindi agad nababayaran na mga claims sa PhilHealth, ayon sa DOH, mayroon kasing date na dapat na maibigay ang claims ng mga ospital. May period na within 60 days at karamihan sa ibang mga ospital ay hindi agad nakakapagbigay ng kanilang mga dokumento para sa kanilang claims,\u201d Castro explained.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Health (DOH) to extend the period of filing hospital claims with the Philippine Health Insurance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17917,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17914\/revisions\/17917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}