[ PHIC PHILHEALTH CIRCULAR NO. 04 s. 2010, February 15, 2010 ]

ACCEPTANCE OF OFFICIAL RECEIPTS AS PROOF OF PREMIUM PAYMENT FROM TIE-UP COLLECTING AGENTS OF PHILHEALTH ACCREDITED COLLECTING BANKS (ACBS)



In line with PhilHealth ™s thrust to bring services closer to OFWs, PhilHealth will continuously exert all its effort to accredited banks and non-banks which has subsidiary branches or tie-up collecting agents abroad to collect premium contribution from OFWs.

These subsidiary branches or tie-up collecting agents abroad may issue their own official receipts to paying OFWs as proof of their PhilHealth annual premium contributions. These  receipts shall be honored by PhilHealth for purposes of benefit availment or contribution verification.

Henceforth, PhilHealth will issue advisories every now and then to update concerned offices of the entity/firm name together with a sample copy of the respective official receipts of each tie-up collecting agents abroad.

Please be guided accordingly.

Adopted: 15 Feb. 2010

(SGD.) DR. REY B. AQUINO
President and CEO