The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) announced that Filipinos will start paying higher premium contributions starting next year.
In a statement on Tuesday, PhilHealth said it is “implementing the scheduled contribution rate and adjustment in income ceiling for 2021 to ensure sufficient funding for the health care benefits of its 110 million members as mandated by Republic Act No. 11223 or the Universal Health Care (UHC) Law”.
Based on the order, those earning below Php10,000 per month will be fixed at Php350.00.
Those who are earning above Php10,000 but less than Php69,999 will be paying between Php350-2,449.99.
Individuals earning above Php70,000 per month will pay Php2,450.00.
“Contributions of employed members (including kasambahays) shall be equally shared between employees and employers, while those self-paying members, professional practitioners and land-based migrant workers and other direct contributors with employee-employer relationship are computed straight based on their salary earnings and paid wholly by the member,” PhilHealth said.
Despite the pandemic, the state insurer said that it is merely implementing the mandate of the UHC law to provide better services to Filipinos.
The agency was involved in Php15 billion corruption issues last August.
The President revamped the organizations while some of its top officials resigned from their posts.
