Rates and rules change. The figures below are from PhilHealth's own announcement of March 27, 2025. Confirm the current rate, accreditation requirements, and claims process with PhilHealth before you build a financial model on them.
What PhilHealth pays
- Rate: ₱6,350 per hemodialysis session, up from ₱4,000.
- Effective: October 9, 2024.
- Sessions: up to 156 per year.
- Annual coverage: up to ₱990,600 per patient (156 sessions at ₱6,350).
- Who is eligible: patients with chronic kidney disease stage 5 who are registered in the PhilHealth Dialysis Database.
What is inside the package
According to PhilHealth, the expanded package covers drugs and medicines for anemia management and anticoagulation, laboratory tests, medical supplies, and administrative costs. Eligible patients also receive 45 days of annual hospital confinement benefits for complications, and PhilHealth describes the result as no-copayment hemodialysis for eligible patients.
Why it matters for a center's costs
The package is one rate per session that includes medical supplies. That means the center carries the cost of everything a session uses, from the dialyzer to the gloves, inside that rate, and it absorbs any variation in what a session actually consumes. A predictable per-treatment supply cost makes it far easier to know where a session stands against the rate.
What a session consumes
On the standard dialysis consumption sheet we work from, the recurring supplies fall into five groups:
- Dialysis machine consumables: dialyzers, bloodlines, acid and bicarbonate concentrates, and filters.
- Vascular access: AV fistula needles, heparin, syringes, and saline.
- Antisepsis and wound care: antiseptics, alcohol, gauze, cotton, and plasters.
- PPE and staff supplies: examination and sterile gloves and face masks.
- Water treatment and sanitation: bleach, cold sterilant, citric acid, residual test strips, and salt.
This is why some centers ask suppliers for a single flat rate per treatment that covers the whole sheet, so that supply cost stops being a moving target. We explain how that works on our dialysis supplies page. We do not publish pricing there or here: the rate is confirmed directly with each center.
Opening a center?
PhilHealth accreditation is one part of getting a center running. Our guide to opening a dialysis center in the Philippines covers the wider set of workstreams.
Sources and further reading
- PhilHealth: expanded hemodialysis benefits (March 27, 2025)
- Philippine News Agency: PhilHealth hikes hemodialysis package rate to P6,350 per session
- Philippine News Agency: PhilHealth hikes hemodialysis package rate to P4K per session (the previous rate)
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