Saturday, August 3, 2013

PHILHEALTH - ON REGISTERING AND REPORTING EMPLOYEES

Philhealth is one of the government mandatory benefits in the Philippines. It aims to provide medical assistance to nearly the entire population. It caters the five patient groups as : the workers; the Retirees; the OFWs; the indigents ; and the Non-poor and others.
Benefits package are the same for each group except for indigents and the OFWs who have additional outpatient primary care benefits.
Let’s leave it at that and now continue with the write-up on the formal sector since HR works for the  employed.
PHILHEALTH REGISTRATION FOR NEWLY HIRED AND EXISTING EMPLOYEES WITHOUT PIN YET
  • Get a Philhealth Member Registration Form from the HR Department and fill it up.
  • Attach the supporting documents for qualified dependents as: birth certificate for children and the marriage contract for spouse.
  • Submit to HR Department. Better to have a receiving copies of your evidence in doing follow-ups.
  • HR Department will then forward it to Philhealth office together with ER2 Form or Report of Employee Members.
  • Then, Philhealth will send the Philhealth ID card and a copy of the Member Data Record to the member through his employer or the HR Department.
HR Department should be organized in keeping up this files of the employees since they are designated as the custodian.
PHILHEALTH FOR NEWLY HIRED EMPLOYEES WITH PIN
For newly-hired with PIN , he/she just have to report his PIN to the employer to indicate the same in ER2.
HR TO REPORT NEW AND SEPARATED EMPLOYEES TO PHILHEALTH
HR must be responsible enough to report the employees to Philhealth to ensure that they can get due benefits especially in times of need.
Newly – hired employees must be reported using the ER2 Form . Reporting must be done within 30 days of hiring date.
Separated employees must be reported using RF1 within 30 days from date of separation from the office.