Details About the PCSO Medical Assistance Program Coverage & Application
PCSO MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM – Here is a guide on the coverage and requirements in applying for the offers under the Individual Medical Assistance Program (IMAP).
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, more popularly called PCSO, is undeniably very prominent for its lottery games. It got several major and minor lotto games that comes with monetary prizes and millions of Pinoys are lotto players.
Actually, aside from conducting PCSO lotto games that can entertain the people and change lives, the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office also has a sort of community work or program that benefits countless Filipinos in dire need for help due to medical situations — the Individual Medical Assistance Program or also called the IMAP.
The IMAP was designed to help Filipinos who are caught in health-related situations obtain assistance. It has a wide coverage, thus, countless Filipinos may have access to it.
The Individual Medical Assistance Programis not only open for individuals who are confined in a health facility and is in need of monetary aid but as well as those who are receiving healthcare management as outpatients.
Furthermore, the PCSO Medical Assistance Program is also open for individuals who are seeking healthcare mnagement in foreign countries because the procedure or treatment they need cannot be provided by any health facility within the country.
What is the coverage of the PCSO Medical Assistance Program? As mentiond earlier, it has a wide coverage and it can assists in the following:
- Hospital Confinement – Those who are currently admitted or have been discharged from the hospital but have unpaid portions of the bill that were put on hold under a promissory note.
- Surgical supplies, laboratory and diagnostic procedure
- Medicines – The PCSO Medical Assistance Program also offers aid for medicines including the anti-rabies shot, factor 8 and 9, psychiatric, post-transplant, post operative, antibiotics, and intravenous immunoglonulin (IVIG)
- Dialysis – Those who are under dialysis treatments like Hemodialysis and Peritoneal (Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis or CAPD)
- Implant – Individuals who need bone or cochlear transplant may also seek assistance under the IMAP.
- Cancer Treatment – Cancer patients who are getting treatments like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, brachytherapy, radioactive iodine, stereotactic radiosurgery or gamma knife
- Non-invasive and minimally invasive procedures – Those who are in need to undergo Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL), Laparoscopic surgery, and Endoscopic procedures
- Transplant procedures – Those who have to undergo kidney transplant and liver transplant
- Medical Devices – Individuals need medical devices such as pacemaker device, septal occluder, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) devices; assistive devices like wheelchair, hearing aid, pulmonary apparatus (rental of ventilator or respirator), prosthesis like arm, leg, or eye
- Rehabilitative Therapy – Patients who need physical, occupational, and speech therapy
- Cardio procedures – Those who have to undergo pacemaker surgery, congenital heart surgery, coronary artery bypass graft, aneurysm surgery, peripheral bypass surgery, percutaneous coronary intervention or angioplasty, diagnostic procedures for Coronary Angiogram or Cardiac Catheterization
In applying under the PCSO Medical Assistance Program, here are the general requirements that you must prepare and submit to a branch of the office nearest to you:
- Duly accomplished PCSO IMAP Application Form.
- Original or Certified True Copy of the updated Clinical Abstract or Medical Abstract signed by the attending physician with license number.
- Any valid ID (patient and representative)