Discounts from GSIS’s program reach P206M

The total amount of discounts members and pensioners of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) have availed of under the pension fund’s medical discount program has already reached P206.3 million to date.

Under the GSIS Hospitalization Support Program or GHSP, GSIS members, their dependents and old-age pensioners can avail of discounts in medical services from various partner-hospitals, including outpatient services and emergency cases, medicines as well as discounts in professional fees of select physicians.

To date, a total of 137,496 patients have already benefited from these discounts provided by the GHSP.

Launched in 2004, the GHSP works like an exchange deal between the GSIS and the partner-hospitals where the pension fund buys medical equipment and lends these to the select hospitals. In exchange, the partner-hospitals provide discounts to GSIS members and pensioners. The medical equipment remain the property of the GSIS.

Patients can avail of a 50-percent discount if they use the medical equipment lent by the GSIS to the hospital; 40-percent discount if they undergo special diagnostic procedures; 35 percent for common procedures; 30 percent on room rates; and 10 percent on professional fees including consultation fees. Dependents of members get a flat discount rate of 10 percent. –Daily Tribune