You don’t have to be insured to get medical help.
“In a circular issued on November 15, 2013, the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) announced that it will pay claims of “members and non-members and accredited and non-accredited hospitals and professionals during [states of calamities and emergencies],” reports Jet Villa on InterAksyon.com.
PhilHealth President and Chief Executive Officer Alex Padilla explained that those seeking payments can even file their claims 120 days from date of discharge. “We will even extend filing period for claims to 120 days from date of discharge, make exemptions to the less than 24-hour confinement rule, and even reimbursement for destroyed claims,” he said.
According to the report, PhilHealth will cover health payments as long as these were incurred in situations considered as “acts of God,” like floods and typhoons, and “act of man,” such rebellion, insurgencies and war, for which the national and the local governments have declared a state of calamity or state of emergency.
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