{"id":987522218,"date":"2021-09-04T03:14:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T02:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/philippines-expands-benefits-coverage\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T09:03:59","slug":"philippines-expands-benefits-coverage","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/philippines-expands-benefits-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippines expands benefits coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has covered admissions in emergency rooms and tents in the hospitals to respond unavailability of hospital rooms. Beneficiaries who&nbsp;stay in&nbsp;the hospital for at least 24 hours are eligible to be covered&nbsp;by PhilHealth.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Hospitals adopt strategies to enhance their capacities to manage COVID-19 during the surge of cases, including setting up tents when it is necessary.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Thus, beneficiaries who&nbsp;were&nbsp;admitted in tents within the compound of accredited hospitals in areas categorized as a high or critical risk for COVID-19 will receive the compensation, starting from March 2021. <span>To read more, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philhealth.gov.ph\/news\/2021\/assures_coverage.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Source:&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>Philippine Health Insurance Corporation&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canva.com\/p\/umnat-seebuaphans-images\/\">Umnat Seebuaphan&#8217;s Images<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has covered admissions in emergency rooms and tents in the hospitals to respond unavailability of hospital rooms. Beneficiaries who&nbsp;stay in&nbsp;the hospital for at least 24 hours are eligible to be covered&nbsp;by PhilHealth.&nbsp; Hospitals adopt strategies to enhance their capacities to manage COVID-19 during the surge of cases, including setting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987529332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}