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Estimated Beneficiaries and Total Registered Members of National Health Insurance Program (Starting 2014)

Table ID: 3K3E1013

Indicator Estimated share of population covered by National Health Insurance Program
Definition Ages: all.
Indicator defined as: Total beneficiaries (members and dependents) of the National Health Insurance Program as a percentage share of total population.
Method of Computation Total beneficiaries (members and dependents) of the National Health Insurance Program as a percentage share of total population.
Source of Basic Data Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth)
Source Document/ Agency Philippine Statistics Authority
Frequency of Release Annually
Latest Available 2018
Level of Disaggregation National
Remarks The SSS (private sector) and GSIS (public sector) previously administered the Medicare Program prior to the creation of PhilHealth.
The PhilHealth assumed the responsibility of administering the Medicare Program, (implemented from August 1971) from GSIS in October 1997, from SSS in 1998 and the Overseas Workers Program from the Overseas Workers and Welfare Administration in March 2005. PhilHealth members who have reached the age of retirement and who have paid at least 120 months premium (including those who have paid in the former Medicare Program), are granted lifetime coverage.  As lifetime members they are also qualified for full benefits together with their qualified dependents.
Beneficiaries are estimated as follows:

2000 to 2008: members based on collection reports and membership database build-up and dependents based on average household size from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
 2009: members in the database and dependents based on average household size from the PSA.
2010-2011: actual counts of members and dependents registered in the database except for dependents of the Sponsored Program (Department of Health and Regular) which were estimated based on the dependent multipliers from the Benefit Delivery Review Study of the UP School of Economics.
d) 2012: actual counts of members and dependents registered in the database except for dependents of LGU-sponsored Program which were estimated using the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction member to dependent ratio.
e) From 2013: actual counts of members and dependents registered in the database.
Contacts Labor Standards and Relations Statistics Division
Philippine Statistics Authority
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Last Updated 11/10/2018
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