Zubiri details how PhilHealth losing millions due to fraud

MANILA--A doctor was allegedly asked to cough up P7.3 million in grease money while certain hospitals fielded ghost patients and padded claims, squeezing millions of pesos out of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth), Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said Tuesday. Zubiri identified at least 5 schemes used by some hospitals to defraud the state-run health insurance firm over the years, including cases where they allegedly paid people P1,000 each to pretend as patients "to claim for more serious ailments."