Health & Wellness Best Posts in Thread: 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.!

 

You also need to consider whether an airline will accept you for travel if your fitness to travel is in question - as a "catastrophic issue" would probably be noticeable. Just a thought Pat O

 

I will renew again. The payback is not fantastic unless you have something very expensive done, but, on balance, I think it's worth having the coverage.

 

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.

 

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