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HEWSPECS-PIDS Baseline

could Norte,

avail 10%

Stud_, on private

of cash percent

contribution availed of.

for In

loan up of the

Health

]nsurance

to PI,000.00 net income

which cash loans Misamis Oriental,

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per from

ranging members

illness. IGP was from of

diocesan organization paid a monthly contribution in exchange for which their children below supplemental food if they became malnourished. p_eventive health services such as out-patient

Similarly, set aside

P200 - P300 a mothers' 5

in Surigao as health

per illness association

of P5 and PI0.00, years of age They were also consultation.

del fund

may and

be a

respectively may be given provided with In another

community-based scheme, the employer agreed to pay P5.00 per month per factory worker while the employees paid P5.00 per month through salary deduction to cover their dependents. The premium is remitted monthly to the affiliated nongovernment organization which rendered preventive health services plus limited outpatient medical and dental care. Should any enrollee avail of outpatient medical/dental services, a corresponding cost is deducted from the employer's premium failure

dues for the month. The deductions were treated as penalties of the preventive health measures which was the main program of

for the the NGO.

Most organizations conditions mentioned

companies with employer-provided health plans and community-based with health insurance did not have explicit policiesregarding the that were excluded from benefit-coverage. Most of them, however, that conditions arising from substance abuse and suicide were

definitely

not

covered

excluded suicide help himself.

2.

by

since

Profile

All of the of their members firms/organizations enrollees by the or organizations

their

such

of

health

condition

Insured

plans.

One

implied

that

community-based the

By the end of 1991, enrollees, 70 per cent of _hould be pointed out,

nine commercial indemnity firms whom were enrollees of two foreign however, that not all of the

_91,

Nine Of

the the

covered only as

by an

enrollees individual

in

a health optional who opted policies.

sample HMOs had the said total,

@_ two.investor-based _ยง_ctive branch

willing

to

sample companies/organizations had no ready data on the profile and had to process them for this study. Thirty-four (34) sample were able to give data on the total number of their members/ end of 1991. The details are shown in Table 4. Fifteen firms could not give any data on the total number of their members. firm

d@termine _0vlewlng

not

Members/Enrollees

One commercial indemnity of them to date.

necessarily Qffered this

organization

personwas

HMOs offices,

Bohol

plan rider. for

offered

health

plans

but

a total of 133,900 about 43 per cent

rider

health

one

availed

altogether had 8,669 non-life firms. It said enrollees were

since most commercial It was difficult for the

no

plan

indemnity firms several firms to since

it

entailed

enrollees in the fourth quarter of were members of the three branches

in NCR, Cebu and the NCR branches

Misamis Oriental. Among of both investor-based

their HMOs

E_ยง_@red the most number of enrollees, followed by the Cebu branch office. _._While, the hospital-basedand employer-initiated HMOs had 26,000 and ii,000 QmJ, respectively, all over the country. The company did not have a ยง_Own of their enrollees by region or province. Being an area-based __ve, the community-based HMO had the least number of coverage with 865 _@@S in the fourth quarter of 1991


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