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
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International Equal Pay Day
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more than other cost items.
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against serious violations of protocols of
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October –
Monthly Observances:
Industry and Commerce Safety Month
National Statistics Month
Local Government Month
Consumer Welfare Month
Cooperative Month
National Quality and Productivity Improvement Month
National Health and Wellness Tourism Month
National Indigenous Peoples Month
Weekly Observances:
Week 1: Elderly Filipino Week
Week 2: National Health Education Week
Local Government Week
National Mental Health Week
October 17-23:
National Week for Overcoming Extreme Poverty
October 18 – 24:
United Nations Week
Last Week:
Nurses’ Week
Consumers’ Protection Week
Week of the 4th Sunday:
Barrio Farmers’ Week
Daily Observances:
First Monday (Oct 4): Universal Children’s Day i
n the Philippines
Oct 5: National Teachers’ Day
Oct 10: Local Government Day
Third Thursday (Oct 14): Conflict Resolution Day
Oct 21: Tenants’ Emancipation day
Oct 24: United Nations Day
Oct 29: National Indigenous People’s Thanksgiving Day
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