{"id":987680435,"date":"2024-02-25T07:34:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T06:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/?post_type=news&p=987680435"},"modified":"2024-03-09T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T06:42:02","slug":"philippine-health-insurance-corporation-increases-contribution-to-5-percent-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/philippine-health-insurance-corporation-increases-contribution-to-5-percent-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Health Insurance Corporation increases contribution to 5% percent in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!” _builder_version=”4.19.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”!!! PLEASE DO NOT EDIT !!!” _builder_version=”4.19.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.19.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – SUMMARY – Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your summary. The summary condenses the main points for the news that starts below. The summary is in bold and not longer than 300 characters, including spaces. The counter at the bottom can help.” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||20px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) increases contribution from 4 % to 5 %, starting in 2024. The contribution increase is in line with the Universal Health Care (UHC) law in Philippines<\/a>.<\/strong>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”TO BE EDITED – TEXT OF THE NEWS – BLOCK 1 – Click on the WHEEL icon to open the textarea where you can paste or type your news. PLEASE USE ONLY THE FEATURED IMAGE FUNCTION on your right column to add the image.” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||1em||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

Luisa Cabato reported in Cebu Daily News that PhilHealth President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Ledesma Jr said that \u201c \u2018As provided for in Section 10 of Republic Act 11223, or the UHC Act, PhilHealth\u2019s [to] implement the last adjustment of premium contributions for the five percent contribution rate and income ceiling of hundred thousand this year\u2019 \u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The article adds that PhilHealth Fund Management Sector Senior Vice President Renato Limsiaco Jr. said that \u201c \u2018The premium PhilHealth contribution of indigents and unemployed senior citizens will be fully shouldered by the government\u2019 \u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

PhilHealth is planning to increase the benefit package following the hike of contributions.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) increases contribution from 4 % to 5 %, starting in 2024. The contribution increase is in line with the Universal Health Care (UHC) law in Philippines.Luisa Cabato reported in Cebu Daily News that PhilHealth President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Ledesma Jr said that \u201c \u2018As provided for in Section…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987680399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987680435"}],"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=987680435"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987680435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987683004,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987680435\/revisions\/987683004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987680399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987680435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987680435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987680435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}