New GHSP partner hospital in Davao
GSIS members and pensioners in Mindanao can now avail of as much as 50 percent in discount from their hospital bills following the signing of a memorandum of agreement between the GSIS and the Davao Medical School Foundation Hospital (DMSF) that made DMSF the latest patner-hospital under the GSIS Hospitalization Support Program (GHSP).
The DMSF, located in Bajada, Davao City, is the sixth accredited hospital under the program. The other partner-hospitals include University of Santo Tomas Hospital in Manila; Capitol Medical Center in Quezon City; Lorma Medical Center in San Fernando, La Union; Perpetual Succour Hospital in Cebu; and the Angeles University Foundation Medical Center in Pampanga.
Launched in 2004, the GHSP works like an exchange deal between the GSIS and the partner-hospitals wherein the pension fund buys medical equipment and lends these to the partner-hospitals. In exchange, the partner-hospitals provide discounts to GSIS members and pensioners. The medical equipment remains the property of the GSIS.
Those covered by the discounts are members, their dependents and old-age pensioners.
Among the benefits offered to them under the GHSP are discounts in medical services and emergency cases, medicines as well as discounts in professional fees of select physicians.
Patients can avail of a 50 percent discount when using the state-of-the-art medical equipment provided by GSIS, 40 percent if they undergo special diagnostic procedures, 35 percent for common procedures, 30 percent on room rates, and 10 percent on professional fees including consultation fees.
To get the discounts, the member or pensioner only needs to present their eCard Plus to the GSIS coordinator in the partner hospital. The GHSP can also be used in combination with the PhilHealth card and health maintenance organization (HMO) card of the patient.
In availing of the hospitalization discount, PhilHealth will be applied first, followed by the HMO and finally the GHSP. - GSIS Kawani, September - December 2007.