PhilHealth urged to tap modern dialyzers, lab tests, medications in dialysis coverage

In the photo are, from left, Dr. Agnes Cruz, Philippine Society of Nephrology external affairs head; Dr. Vimar Luz, PSN secretary and STOP CKD Advocacy head; and Dr. Cyril Tolosa, AstraZeneca Philippines medical affairs director discuss CKD prevention in the first-ever Agham Kapihan.

Low-flux dialysis is a kind of dialysis treatment that utilizes a lower rate of blood flow and dialysate flow compared to high-flux dialysis. The latter has better dialysis adequacy. HDF is a kind of kidney replacement therapy that uses convective in combination with diffusive clearance. While the subsidy for PhilHealth dialysis patients will be back to P4,000 each session, it won’t include lab tests and medicines that used to be covered by such amount during the term of former presidents Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and the late Benigno “PNoy” Aquino III.

For several years that the group of Dr. Luz has been meeting with the PhilHealth, he noted that the agency is actually studying their recommendation. He added that it also plans to change the coverage to be diagnosis-driven, where it will subsidize the treatment of different complications that the CKD patient has rather than the dialysis itself. The medications to cure complications are, more often than not, pricey that only the well-off can afford.

“This is the reason why AstraZeneca would like to focus on chronic kidney disease, not on the late stage, but on the earlier part. So our advocacy is about early screening, early diagnosis and get yourself treated in case you have a chronic kidney disease. Also, our focus is on preventing the chronic kidney disease, at the same time, delaying its progress in case you have it. And this is the reason why we’re partnering with the Philippine Society of Nephrology to promote kidney awareness.

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