Philippines Health Insurance Corporation, otherwise known as Philhealth, through the memorandum circular 2017-0024, has just announced adjustments to the premium contributions of the employed sector in order to sustain the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) which will take effect on January 2018.
These adjustments to the NHIP premium contributions is requisite so as to sustain the various enhancements to the program benefits introduced in recent years. This is also needed to further come up and sustain future benefits in order to effectively respond to the growing healthcare financing needs of all Philhealth's members.
As stipulated in such circular order, the premium monthly contributions shall be at a rate of 2.75% computed straight based on the basic salary of the employer. This will have a salary floor of Php 10,000 and a maximum of Php 40,000. This amount will then be equally shared both by the employees and their employers.
On the other hand, to those members who are earning above Php 40,000, the contribution shall be both Php 550 both for the employee and the employer (with a total monthly contribution of Php 1,000).
With the removal of the salary brackets, computation shall now be based on the following table:
