{"id":987725309,"date":"2024-10-08T08:53:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T07:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/?post_type=news&p=987725309"},"modified":"2024-10-08T08:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T07:53:49","slug":"philhealth-to-further-increase-overall-health-benefit-package-by-30-percent","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/philhealth-to-further-increase-overall-health-benefit-package-by-30-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"PhilHealth to further increase overall health benefit package by 30 percent"},"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=”{}”]The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) expects to implement another round of 30-percent increase in all its benefit packages to reduce out-of-pocket expenses of PhilHealth beneficiaries.<\/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=”{}”]According to Filane Mikee Cervantes reported in the Philippine News Agency, PhilHealth implemented a 30-percent increase in the coverage rates of most of its benefit packages in February 2024. This move aims to reduce the out-of-pocket medical expenses of Filipinos.<\/p>\n

During a House Appropriations Committee hearing on the proposed 2025 budget for the Department of Health, it was announced that further increases in health benefits are expected by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in the process of studying another round of 30 percent [increase] almost across-the-board. I can commit to this Committee that this will happen before Christmas Day,” Emmanuel Ledesma Jr., PhilHealth President and CEO said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) expects to implement another round of 30-percent increase in all its benefit packages to reduce out-of-pocket expenses of PhilHealth beneficiaries.According to Filane Mikee Cervantes reported in the Philippine News Agency, PhilHealth implemented a 30-percent increase in the coverage rates of most of its benefit packages in February 2024. This…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987725312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[118,134],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987725309"}],"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=987725309"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987725309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987725330,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987725309\/revisions\/987725330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987725312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987725309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987725309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987725309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}