The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) announced on Wednesday that some of their programs will be affected due to the delayed increase in premium rate contribution.
According to PhilHealth Senior Manager for Corporate Communications Rey Baleña, there will be adjustments to other benefits including aid for mental health, therapeutic care for malnutrition, and healthcare consultations.
“The new benefits – following our benefit plan – might be affected in terms of implementation. These new benefits, just like our outpatient benefit for mental health and the outpatient therapeutic care for severe acute malnutrition, which are both due for rollout this year, will continue to be implemented but with some adjustments,” Baleña said in a statement.
He also mentioned adjustments on the Konsulta Benefit Package, a program that assigns members to accredited Konsulta providers to help them with their health needs.
"We are already heavily invested in this program, so this program will definitely push through. Perhaps we will just be adjusting on the percentage of the population that will be initially covered by this but definitely, the Konsulta program will push through,” he explained.
To recall, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered PhilHealth to suspend the implementation of a 4.5 percent increase in the premium contribution.
