Nakatakdang taasan ng Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) ngayong taon ang saklaw nito para sa outpatient hemodialysis sa 156 session mula sa kasalukuyang 90 session.
Ito ay alinsunod sa pangako ng state health insurer na “magpatupad ng ilang mga pagpapahusay ngayong taon” sa mga package ng benepisyo nito, ayon kay PhilHealth President at Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel Ledesma Jr.
“Recognizing the yearly ordeal of our dialysis patients, we will expand our coverage for outpatient hemodialysis from 90 to 156 sessions,” ayon kayLedesma sa isang press briefing kanina.
“This increase in the number of sessions covered is based on standards for adequate dialysis which requires three four-hour sessions every week for chronic kidney disease stage 5 patients,” dagdag niya.
Target ng ahensya na opisyal na mailabas ang bagong patakarang ito bago sumapit ang buwan ng Agosto, ayon kay PhilHealth Senior Vice President Israel Francis Pargas.
“Remember our dialysis covers 90 sessions right now and basically it will end up to second sem[ester] or at least until August… So we have the time until the second sem to make sure na yung 156 mailabas natin. Kasi iyon pong initial coverage natin pagdating sa (that we can release the [policy for the] 156 [sessions]). Because the initial coverage for) dialysis is up to 90 sessions and that again will last until July or August of this year and every year thereafter,” ayon sa kanya.
Sinabi ni Pargas na na umaasa sila na opisyal na ipapalabas sa lalong madaling panahon ang nabanggit na policy “the soonest to make sure that our people and our dialysis patients are already informed and our institutions are actually ready.”
“We hope that by this first or or second sem, we can already come out with the policy,” he said.
Samantala, hinihikayat ni Ledesma ang publiko na mag avail din ng Meanwhile, iba pang “renal replacement therapy” ng PhilHealth.
“PhilHealth is providing P270,000 in financial support to patients who are on peritoneal dialysis or what we call PD-First. And for those who have organ donors, PhilHealth pays P600,000 for renal patients qualified under our Z benefits for kidney transplantation. We urge our kidney patients to avail of these benefits to achieve a better quality of life,” ang kanyang pagtatapos.
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