PhilHealth receives commendation from Cebu Provincial Board for dialysis benefit expansion

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PhilHealth receives commendation from Cebu Provincial Board for dialysis benefit expansion
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The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) was recently recognized by the Cebu Provincial Board for expanding its coverage for hemodialysis

The Provincial Board in its Resolution No. 1759-2023 approved on August 11, 2023, “commend and express utmost gratitude to PhilHealth for the issuance of its Circular No. 2023-0009 which allows its members who are registered in its Chronic Kidney Disease 5 database to avail of a maximum of 156 hemodialysis sessions from the previous 90 sessions”.

The patient should also be registered in the PhilHealth Dialysis Database prior to availment. With this development, CKD5 patients on hemodialysis can avail of as much as P405,600 per year at P2,600 per session.“We express our gratitude to the Cebu Provincial Board led by Vice Governor Hilario Davide III for recognizing PhilHealth’s effort to ease the financial burden of our kababayans undergoing hemodialysis treatment,” PhilHealth President and CEO Emmanuel R. Ledesma Jr. said.

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