O FFICIAL

P hil Health STATEMENT

PhilHealth Board extends coverage

to member-patients Suspected
of 2019-nCoV infection

T
he Board of Directors of
the Philippine Health
Insurance Corporation
(PhilHealth) has approved a
benefit package for member-
patients under investigation
(PUIs) for possible 2019-nCoV
infection who are admitted the social health insurer likewise
covers attendant medical costs
in health care facilities for
incurred by the patients.
isolation and quarantine In order to help arrest the spread
as advised by competent of the 2019-nCOV, the state agency is
physicians. strongly supporting the Department
Currently, treatment due to of Health in its call to observe
coronavirus infection is covered and cleanliness, practice good personal
paid for using case rates. In more hygiene which include frequent hand
severe cases where an infection leads washing, and avoid crowded places
to moderate or high-risk pneumonia, as much as possible.

BGEN. RICARDO C. MORALES, AFP (RET) FICD

President and Chief Executive Officer