The Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Thursday, August 27, that the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) allowed thousands of fraud cases to go unchecked, most of them remaining within the internal legal mechanisms of the agency where officials preferred settlement rather than filing charges.

“While there are thousands of administrative cases against PhilHealth employees in the corporation’s case inventory, only seventy (70) cases have been ‘processed,’ and only fifty (50) have resulted in the issuance of formal charges against employees,” Justice Undersecretary Markk Perete told reporters Thursday.

Perete said this was revealed to the the DOJ’s task force by resigned Philhealth legal senior vice president Rodolfo del Rosario Jr. Del Rosario said the fraud cases were both against employees and healthcare institutions (HCIs).

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