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MANILA - Malacanang on Tuesday renewed its call to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) to settle unpaid claims after seven private hospitals in Iloilo announced cutting ties with the state insurer over unpaid claims amounting to more than PHP545 million. "Pangulong Duterte has already issued a directive in previous Cabinet meeting namin na to pay the hospitals immediately, bayaran ang mga ospital (President Duterte has already issued a directive in a previous Cabinet meeting to pay hospitals immediately)," Acting Presidential Spokesperson, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said in a Palace press briefing. Nograles pointed out that Duterte's directive led to PhilHealth coming up with its debit-credit payment method (DCPM), which allows hospitals to receive 60 percent of their reimbursement claims even if PhilHealth is not yet done in processing their documentary requirements. "So because of that directive, nagkaroon nitong (we now have this) debit-credit

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