Payments for COVID-related claims reach P16.7 B - PhilHealth

Total reimbursements for COVID-19-related claims last year reached over P16 billion, according to the state health insurer.

- RHODINA VILLANUEVA

The claims amounting to P16.7 billion include payments for inpatient care, COVID-19 testing, services and supplies for testing provided by the laboratory, isolation measures, community isolation package and home isolation package, the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) said.

Inpatient care comprised the bulk of total payments, at 88 percent or P14.6 billion for 72,511 claims.

This included critical pneumonia, adult and pediatric (P5 billion); severe pneumonia, adult and pediatric (P4.5 billion); moderate pneumonia (P4 billion); mild pneumonia, elderly or with comorbidities (P685 million).