salaries for health workers and continuous improvement of facilities which all translate to better services to members,” PhilHealth president and CEO Emmanuel Ledesma said in a statement.

MANILA — From a whopping P138 million, PhilHealth’s budget for its 30th anniversary has been reduced to just a “few hundred thousand pesos”. This was the announcement of Philhealth ...

In his first 30 days in office, Mercado oversaw the approval of new policies, and some existing benefit packages have also been enhanced. Ledesma previously told lawmakers that it took over a decade ...

Mercado replaced Emmanuel Ledesma Jr. who got unceremoniously booted out from his post amid questions principally over PhilHealth’s financial management. Mercado formally took his oath before ...

The Supreme Court was thus asked yesterday to nullify RA 12116, the General Appropriations Act of 2025. The petition wants the SC to bar Congress and Malacañang from implementing the flawed budget.