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THE Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) announced that is now covering all outpatient emergency services in accredited Levels 1, 2, and 3 hospitals nationwide.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The state health insurer said that starting February 14, 2025, outpatient emergency services would be covered under the facility-based emergency (FBE) benefit in line with the outpatient emergency care benefit package.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This applies to services rendered in the emergency departments of accredited hospitals and their extensions.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to PhilHealth, the facility-based emergency benefit covers services such as imaging, laboratory tests, routine blood work and therapeutics.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The benefit package, stated in PhilHealth Circular 2024-0033, sets reimbursement limits for outpatient emergency services not covered under existing case rates or benefit packages.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It includes costs for medical services, essential medicines, and supplies needed to manage urgent or emergent conditions, including diagnostic and laboratory procedures.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PhilHealth reminded hospitals that a separate accreditation to provide FBE benefits is not required as it is already included in their hospital accreditation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n However, extension facilities that offer FBE services should submit a certification with its name and address to the nearest PhilHealth regional offices for updating.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Earlier this month, PhilHealth said it needed more accredited medical facilities to expand its health coverage to millions of Filipinos.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The state-owned firm added that it was working on covering ambulance services for the pre-hospital emergency benefit.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has directed the Department of Health (DOH) to ensure the uninterrupted delivery of PhilHealth benefits.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The directive was issued amid lawmakers stripping of government subsidy for the state health insurer in the 2025 national budget at the Bicameral Conference Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) announced that is now covering all outpatient emergency services in accredited Levels 1, 2, and 3 hospitals nationwide. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11940,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11938\/revisions\/11940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}