Panukalang pagdoble sa Benefit Package para sa dialysis, pag-aaralan ng PhilHealth

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00:00 Good news, PhilHealth is studying a way to double the benefit package for our countrymen who are going through dialysis.

00:07 This is to reduce the burden on our countrymen.

00:11 Mela Alessmura is back in the center of the news.

00:14 Following the directive of House Speaker Martin Romualdez,

00:20 House Deputy Majority Leader Erwin Tulfo helped the officials of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation

00:27 to discuss how to increase their services.

00:32 Tulfo helped to expand the benefit package of PhilHealth for patients who are going through dialysis.

00:41 Even though the dialysis session is free under the consulta package,

00:45 patients still have a problem buying medicine.

00:48 The target of the camera is to double the benefit package for this.

00:53 PhilHealth assured that they will study this.

00:57 To solve this problem, PhilHealth will double the 2,600 package for dialysis.

01:05 PhilHealth will double it to 5,200 for all in.

01:09 So that the diabetics who are going through dialysis will not have to cash out.

01:14 They will not have to cash out because every time, especially those who are going through 3 sessions a week.

01:20 We studied this and we were given a one month period.

01:24 We will cover all of it.

01:27 Our goal, according to the directive of Erwin Tulfo,

01:32 our goal is to cover all dialysis patients out of pocket.

01:37 But whenever the benefits are considered in PhilHealth,

01:40 many people ask where will they get the funds for this if ever.

01:45 Some are worried that this will add to the contribution.

01:50 The agency is also concerned.

01:52 PhilHealth will fund it.

01:55 The agency will not have to increase the payment.

01:58 No.

01:59 Before this, several initiatives of the camera were implemented by PhilHealth,

02:03 such as expanding the benefits for breast cancer patients.

02:07 The free mammogram and free ultrasound for everybody will start on May 15.

02:15 It is already included in the consulta package.

02:17 If you want to get a mammogram or your beneficiary, just go to the website of PhilHealth and you will see where the hospitals are.

02:27 Over 300 private hospitals.

02:30 You don't need to go to government hospitals.

02:33 Merales Moras for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.