Practice question
A hospital provides basic emergency care to an indigent patient and incurs eligible expenses not reimbursed by PhilHealth. It argues the statute recognizes only reimbursement and no treatment of unreimbursed expenses. Which additional mechanism is expressly stated?
- Tax deductibility of the stated unreimbursed basic-emergency-care expenses
- Automatic exemption from every tax forever
- A mandatory deposit from every future patient
- Confiscation of the patient’s home
- Automatic cancellation of its license
Legal references
- RA10932, current BP702 Sections3–4 and7–8: https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra2017/ra_10932_2017.html
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