The state insurer Philippine Health Insurance Corporation’s (Philhealth) campaign on Konsultasyong Sulit at Tama, better known as PhilHealth
Konsulta, intensifies in Central Visayas as the Regional Office strives to accredit more providers in different localities.
As an initial step towards adopting a comprehensive approach to delivering
primary care, as prescribed under Republic Act 11223 or the Universal Health Care (UHC) Law, the PhilHealth commits to making essential outpatient services such as consultations, health screening and assessment, laboratory tests, and medicines available to all Filipinos.
In the promotion of this cause, PhilHealth Regional Office 7’s Accreditation and
Quality Assurance Team along with the Local Health Insurance Offices (LHIO), facilitated a series of strategic dialogues, focus-group discussions, and courtesy calls with health care facilities and local chief executives to collaborate with them toward this advancement in health care.
Prospect partners from the urban areas to the rural health units in the islands were
highly regarded for their crucial role in the delivery of health care. They were given orientations about the benefit package and its accreditation guidelines virtually at the height of the pandemic, and through face-to-face meetings as the alert levels were downgraded.
The Konsulta benefit package may be availed by PhilHealth members and their
declared legal dependents in an accredited facility of choice, in which registration may be processed initially through the nearest PhilHealth LHIO and later on, may be done through self-registration online.
The Konsulta program, though an interim measure, is a transitory phase in moving
forward to the comprehensive primary care benefit package. It is an opening door developed through the ‘bayanihan’ spirit characterized by the National Health Insurance Program and the progressive realization of UHC in addressing the nation’s health needs.
PhilHealth 7’s Accreditation and Quality Assurance Section, headed by its chief
Dr. Maria Eliza Batucan, is also continuously encouraging and inviting both private and government health facilities to apply as Konsulta provider.
Some of the minimum requirements for accreditation of Konsulta providers, in terms of
service capability, are ability to conduct preventive/screening service and health education, capability of providing services for required laboratory and radiologic services, and capability to dispense required medicines, as indicated in the Annexes of PhilHealth Circular No. 2020-0021.
With only one Konsulta provider last year, Central Visayas now has 30 accredited providers
both from the private and government-run health facilities as of July 1, 2022. Several more facilities are still in the process of completing their application.
List of PhilHealth-accredited Konsulta Providers in Central Visayas:
CEBU
1. Badian District Hospital
2. Bantayan District Hospital
3. Barili District Hospital
4. Camp Lapulapu Station Hospital– Apas, Cebu City
5. Carcar Women and Children Lying-in Polyclinic and Laboratory
6. Cebu Provincial Hospital – Balamban
7. Cebu Provincial Hospital – Bogo City
8. Cebu Provincial Hospital – Carcar City
9. Cebu Provincial Hospital – Danao City
10. Cebu South Medical Center – Talisay City
11. Daanbantayan District Hospital
12. Deiparine Community Hospital – Sibonga
13. Dr. Ildefonso Alcantara Memorial Hospital– Dalaguete
14. Dr. Jose Ma. Borromeo Memorial District Hospital– Pinamungajan
15. Eversley Childs Sanitarium and General Hospital– Pinamungaja
16. Isidro C. Kintanar Memorial Hospital – Argao
17. Juan B. Dosado Memorial Hospital – Sogod
18. Malabuyoc Rural Health Unit
19. Mariano Jesus Cuenco Memorial Hospital– Malabuyoc
20. Minglanilla District Hospital
21. Oslob District Hospital
22. Ricardo L. Maningo Memorial Hospital – San Francisco, Camotes Island
23. San Remigio Rural Health Unit
24. Tuburan District Hospital
BOHOL
25. Concepcion Memorial Hospital – Valencia
26. Cong. Natalio P. Castillo Sr. Memorial Hospital – Loon
27. Don Emilio Del Valle Memorial Hospital – Ubay
28. Governor Celestino Gallares Memorial Hospital – Tagbilaran City
29. San Miguel Rural Health Unit
NEGROS ORIENTAL
30. Diagnostic Care and Laboratory Services – Dumaguete City
