Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) (MANILA BULLETIN)
The filing of charges stemmed from the findings of the National Bureau of Investigation-Central Visayas regarding the case of a 41-year-old male patient who was admitted at Chong Hua Hospital (CHH) last March 30, 2020 after experiencing difficulty in breathing.
The patient, who was said to be jobless the last 10 years, was later transferred to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMCC) where he eventually died due to Hepatic Encephalopathy or Acute Decomponsated Liver Cirrhosis as secondary cause.
However, The NBI-7 investigation showed that eight officials of PhilHealth-7 and three medical workers of CHH allegedly colluded in facilitating fraudulent COVID-19 claims for the patient amounting to P197, 883.52 even if he was COVID-19 negative based on the swab test done at VSMCC.
February 09, 2021 THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) 7 filed on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, criminal charges against eight officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. in Central Visayas (Philhealth 7) and three officers and employees of Chong Hua Hospital in Cebu City for their alleged failure to identify falsified documents that made a patient appear that he tested positive for Covid-19 and was a frontliner.
The employees of Chong Hua Hospital (CHH) are the second batch of medical workers that the NBI 7 has charged in over three months.
The NBI 7, on Oct. 29, 2020, filed graft charges against four officers of Perpetual Succour Hospital in Cebu City and eight officials of Philhealth 7 for their alleged involvement in Covid-19 benefit claims anomalies.