Policy on the Reimbursement of Hospital Expenses for Service-Connected Ailments of Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease and Cardiovascular Accident

September 12, 1996ECC BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 96-09-0397POLICY ON THE REIMBURSEMENT OF HOSPITAL EXPENSES FOR SERVICE-CONNECTED AILMENTS OF HYPERTENSIVE CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE AND CARDIOVASCULAR ACCIDENT"As duly provided for in Rule VIII (B) of the ECC Charter (Presidential Decree 626, as amended), the Administering Agencies of the Employees' Compensation Program for the private sector and the public service, namely, the Social Security System and the Government Service Insurance; System, shall reimburse to a hospital, wherein an employee, who has suffered from work-related ailment or diseases is confined, all the medicines, drugs or supplies deemed justifiably necessary for the treatment of the employee's medical condition at a cost not exceeding retail prices; and"In a meeting of 4th September 1996, the 1st Special Working Group of Commissioners, with the Technical Review Committee, ECC, unanimously recommended to this Commission the approval of the reimbursement by the System of claims filed by Employees' Compensation patients for expenses they have incurred in the purchase of medicines considered necessary to lower their serum lipid levels, as a result of their service-connected ailments of hypertensive...