Health & Wellness Philhealth Cost

Until a few years ago, a married foreigner could be covered under his wife's Philhealth Insurance. Of course that is no longer allowed, so now I pay PHP 17K annually and my wife and boy are covered under my plan. Today my boy had to see his doctor and was given a pain injection. Siliman total outpatient cost was PHP 9,300. Surprisingly, Philhealth covered all of it.!

 

I was not aware that wife and children are covered on foreigner's plan. never offered to me/wife on payment.

 

That's great! In the past (several years ago) the patient needed to be confined to get anything out of PhilHealth.

 

I thought that too. But my wife informs me she has friends who received injections as out-patients for frozen shoulders and for bursitis and these were covered by Philheath.

How soon before Philhealth is better than the UK's NHS!

 

Got a frozen shoulder since November last year, been doing a few exercises from You-tube videos, seems to getting better very slowly. How will injections make it better? When the injected meds wears off It's going to get painful again?

 

I've had frozen shoulder in both shoulders and had cortisone in both shoulders. I think I had two shots in one shoulder over time. Eventually the frozen shoulder resolved itself. It's hard to know if the cortisone sped up the healing process or just made it more tolerable as it healed itself. It didn't immediately resolve after the shots, but they did make it feel better.

 

I had two rotator cuff injections pain injections. Both lasted only 30 days then back to pain. I will report back how long my son's injection lasts. His injury is inflamed bursa sac.

 

I Said I would report back how long my son's shoulder pain injection lasted. Sadly, only 10 days, and pain causing crying once again.. Monday we will get the doctor's release to go to Chong Hua. We allowed him to go back to soccer practice. Maybe body slamming was all it took. nevertheless, mistake or no, two plus years here with no solution requires whatever once and for all.

 

I had right shoulder and then left shoulder. The injections were, I think, steroids and they reduced the inflammation. Eventually I recovered but have more limited movement - I had to give up badminton and so moved from 7,999,999,998 to 7,999,999,999 in the World rankings. :(

I wonder if ever you had Duputren's contracture (the fingers moving in towards the palms) as there is a commonality between that and frozen shoulder and a link to Scandinavian ancestry. It exists within my family so it is inherited. It seems hundreds of years ago some randy Viking caused that!

 

Hmm......I have Duputren's and have had frozen shoulder in the past, but no Scandinavian in me that I'm aware of.