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PhilHealth to undergo reorganization —Morales


Recently-installed Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) president and CEO Ricardo Morales is eyeing to reorganize PhilHealth to handle the volume of workload once the Universal Health Care Law in is full swing this year.

“I’m looking at the organizational chart. Maybe we have to reorganize to deliver more responsible services,” Morales told reporters on Tuesday during his first press conference as PhilHealth chief.

PhilHealth is a government-owned and controlled corporation mandated to provide health insurance coverage and ensure health care services for all Filipino citizens.

Morales, a retired military general, was appointed last month by President Rodrigo Duterte to head PhilHealth.

The planned reorganization would coincide with the Universal Health Care Act which Duterte signed into law last February.

Under the law, all Filipino citizens are automatically enrolled into the National Health Insurance Program —those who have the capacity to pay as direct contributors, and the indigents and senior citizens as indirect contributors and sponsored by the government.

Morales noted that implementing the law is expected to double the insurance claims being processed by PhilHealth from 1 million.

“Under the Universal Health Care, we are anticipating magiging 2 million claims a month, so you should imagine the amount of work we are ready to support under the administration,” he said.

Morales is now looking at a top-to-bottom reorganization of PhilHealth.

“Ang basis niyan is ‘form follows function’, and the work that is facing us is the operationalization of the Universal Health Care which will double our workload,” he said.

“I’m looking at what are the boxes that have to be moved, new boxes, their relationship,” Morales noted by did not give a definite timeline for the reorganization, saying the PhilHealth is still fine-tuning the details.

“We will be conducting a study on this—what changes to be made, positions that are going to be created, positions that are going to be merged,” he added. —VDS, GMA News

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