PhilHealth will introduce this year a new benefit package for Filipinos with mental health illnesses requiring interventions at the primary care level, amid calls from advocacy groups and lawmakers for more access to these kinds of services. /PDI
The Konsulta package is the agency’s primary health-care services, such as consultation, laboratory tests and medicines.
For Stage 5 patients of chronic kidney disease, outpatient hemodialysis will be raised to 156 sessions based on standards for an “adequate dialysis” that requires three 4-hour sessions per week. “This package… would need trained people to look after patients with mental health [conditions]. That’s why at the community level, we will set requirements and standards for trained people who will handle the packages,” Pargas said at a press briefing this week celebrating PhilHealth’s 28th anniversary.
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