BAGUIO CITY — The city government of Baguio has received the second capitation fund or advance payment from the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) after posting an exceptional performance in implementing the "Konsultasyong Sulit at Tama" (Konsulta) program. Mayor Benjamin Magalong and the City Health Services Office (CHSO) team led by acting city health officer Dr. Celia Flor Brillantes received the check amounting to P33,250,000 from PhilHealth-Baguio Chief Social Insurance Officer Janet Palaez on September 9. The capitation fund is under Philhealth's sandbox innovation program, which grants primary care provider networks (PCPNs) in the country advance payments even before services have been rendered. The Summer Capital was among the first seven PCPNs in the country that were given capitation funds, receiving P16 million in December 2023. Palaez said the city was granted the second capitation fund after posting a 111 percent accomplishment, exceeding its baseline 60 percent of the target in the performance of its Konsulta tasks. The city dispensed P17,710,188 in registering members to the Konsulta program and providing, primary care as against the first capitation fund frontloaded to the city, amounting to P15,976,000. Magalong thanked PhilHealth for providing more capitation funds and for choosing the city as a pioneer PCPN, citing the program's benefit for the city's populace given the rising costs of medicines, laboratory and medical procedures in private hospitals.