Pangasinan still tops in PhilHealth enrollees
PANGASINAN still ranks number one all over Region 1 in the number of enrollees with the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth).
This was bared Friday during a press conference called by the PhilHealth Regional Office in Dagupan , coinciding with the agency’s 17th anniversary.
Madonna Valdez, chief of the membership section of the PhilHealth regional office, said as of the first week of February, enrolment to PhilHealth in Pangasinan reached 702,086 families with beneficiaries totaling 2,216,795.
A PhilHealth card issued to ensured families covers the husband and wife, and their children 21 years old and below.
Those insured include government and private sector workers whose premiums are deducted monthly by their employers, individual paying program (IPP) members, Overseas Workers Program (OWP), sponsored beneficiaries and lifetime members.
In the whole Region 1, including the province of Batanes, the enrolment totaled 1,319, 501 with 4184,158 estimated total beneficiaries.
Pangasinan’s sponsored beneficiaries, courtesy of the provincial government, municipal and city governments, and congressmen, totaled 106,455 families with 384,303 beneficiaries.
However, the sponsored beneficiaries of the Department of Health who are covered by the Pantawid Pampamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) registered more enrollees, numbering 128,862 with 384,303 beneficiaries.
La Union came in second with 248,582 enrollees; Ilocos Sur, P194,407; Ilocos Norte, 170,579; and Batanes, 3,847.
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