CORTES, Bohol, Sept. 5 (PIA) –- Philhealth members who would avail of the services and supplies procured by the Bohol’s containerized molecular testing laboratory can avail of a Philhealth package called C19T1, with the government health insurance provider paying the facility P3,409.
This means a patient who intends to avail of PhilHealth benefits would have to fill out a Case Investigation Form and have his or her membership validated through the PhilHealth Portal which can be found within the complex where the molecular lab is located.
With the PhilHealth validation, a member would only have to shell out P1,091 which he can pay directly to the Office of the Provincial Treasurer or its authorized representatives, according to Provincial Ordinance No. 2020-025.
The Ordinance establishing the rates of the COVID-19 Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) test from the containerized molecular laboratory owned and operated by the Provincial Government of Bohol set the payment rates for the use of the facility and its services.
The RT-PCR test is a nuclear-derived method for detecting the presence of specific genetic materials in any pathogen, including a virus.
Non-Philhealth members will have to pay the full amount of P4,500 for all the services and supplies used to test the patient.
The payment covers screening, clinical assessment, specimen collection and handling, conduct of RT PCR testing, and analysis of the results.
Foreign nationals who are not Philhealth members and would avail of the Covid RT PCR test at the containerized molecular laboratory at the Bohol Medical Care Institute are categorized as paying patients.
In cases where the RT PCR uses a donated testing kit where there is limited service rendered to the patient, the provincial ordinance says payment amount is P2,077.
In PhilHealth’s C19T2 code, where the service package includes screening, clinical assessment, specimen collection and handling, conduct of RT-PCR testing and analysis of results using donated test kits, Philhealth coverage is P2,077, leaving the remaining amount of P2,423 to be shelled out by the patient.
But in Section 3 of the Provincial Ordinance, on the subject on rates, a matrix shows a header: Condition for Payment for Philhealth members showing the amount P3,409.
Being PhilHealth-accredited, Bohol’s containerized RT PCR-use ordinance also sets a priority in accommodation in the facility’s use.
In the priority list for RT PCR testing are first, patients or health care workers with severe or critical symptoms and relevant travel history and contact, patients and health care workers with mild symptoms, with travel history and contact and are in the vulnerable sector, then followed by patients or health care workers with mild symptoms, relevant travel history and contact, and then asymptomatic patients and health care workers with relevant travel history and contact like those confined in prisons, and finally frontliners indirectly involved in health care provision.
The Provincial Ordinance which was approved on Aug. 18, 2020 was sponsored by Board Member (BM) Aldner Damalerio, co-sponsored by BMs Frans Gelaine Garcia, Elpidio Bonita, Jon Jade Bautista, Romulo Cepedoza and the presiding officer Vice Gov. Rene Relampagos. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
Source: Philippines Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)
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