Philhealth sets new
conditions for claims

The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. has added additional conditions for entitlement of benefits among its members, in a bid to ensure the sustainability of the government's health insurance program.

Two new conditions have been set in place as stated in Philhealth Circular No. 31, first of which is the status of a hospital or health facility's accreditation with Philhealth during a member's confinement period.

The circular states that if the hospital's accreditation expires within the member patient's confinement period, the member is still entitled to Philhealth's benefits for drugs and medicines, X-ray, laboratory procedures and others, including coverage for operating room and professional fees.

Phosphate processing plant
to open soon in Basay town
BY JUDY F. PARTLOW

A phosphate processing plant will be operational soon in Basay, Negros Oriental, with private security forces preparing for deployment sometime this month, provincial police director, Senior Supt. Rey Lyndon Lawas, said.

Representatives from the AY76 Security Specialists, a private contractor hired to secure the Kolinski phosphate processing plant, have coordinated with Lawas, who motored with them to Basay Tuesday for an initial inspection of the site.

Lawas said the phosphate processing plant, which also operates phosphate mines in Agusan in Mindanao, is scheduled to be operational sometime in March or April, this year.

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