Perpetual Succour Hospital Inc. (PSHI) in Cebu claimed that their officers and employees were not involved in fraudulent activities amid the complaints they received from the National Bureau of Investigation in Central Visayas (NBI-7) on Thursday.
NBI-7 filed cases against four personnel from the Financial Management Services (FMS) of PSHI and some officials from the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. in the region (PhilHealth-7) for allegedly conniving a deceased patient's case to COVID-19.
NBI-7 stated in their complaints that Patient X, who was admitted to PSHI last May, died due to non-COVID-19 pneumonia with a pre-existing medical condition of stage four cancer.
However, they said that the patient’s living relatives received information from PhilHealth-7 that severe COVID-19 claims summing up to P333,519 were credited to the hospital despite the fact that he passed away to regular pneumonia, and tested negative for COVID-19.
Jose Ray Bael, PSHI's legal officer and lawyer assured the public that there were no irregularities made in processing the claims of Patient X.
“PSHI is strongly confident that the PhilHealth claim for Patient X is above board as it was based on medical diagnosis of competent and respected medical professionals,” portions of PSHI's statement read.
NBI-7 is continuing its investigation on possible irregularities of COVID-19 claims in Central Visayas.
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