The PhilHealth barely covers half of the population in five provinces, according to a study by the state think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies. | zacariansINQ
The study was conducted by PIDS senior research fellow Valerie Gilbert Ulep, supervising research specialist Jhanna Uy, and research consultants Clarisa Joy Flaminiano, Vicente Alberto Puyat, and Victor Andrew Antonio.“This could pose a challenge for PhilHealth in endeavoring to raise member registration for these priority areas and achieve universal population coverage of the NHIP [National Health Insurance Program] in the country,” the authors said in the study.
“RA 11223 states that all Filipinos are automatically enrolled under the National Health Insurance Program — which makes the PhilHealth [target] coverage rate 100 percent. But after looking into PhilHealth’s registered beneficiaries data from 2018 to 2021, we identified geographic discrepancies in the population coverage across provinces,” the study said.
These indigents and beneficiaries of government programs like the Pantawid Pamilya Pilipino Program were noted to be “at higher risk of contracting diseases.”
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