PhilHealth members with chronic renal issues should avail of kidney transplant or peritoneal dialysis benefits, the state health insurer said.
“We urge our kidney patients to avail of these benefits to achieve a better quality of life,” PhilHealth CEO Emmanuel Ledesma Jr. said in Cebu on Friday where he received a recognition from the provincial board for PhilHealth’s decision to expand its hemodialysis coverage from 90 to 156 sessions.
The state health insurer announced the expansion and institutionalization of its hemodialysis coverage through PhilHealth Circular 2023-0009 which took effect in June this year. PhilHealth members and their qualified dependents diagnosed with chronic kidney disease needing hemodialysis as prescribed by their nephrologists may avail themselves of the benefit package.