Details about the PCSO Medical Aid 2025 Coverage & Application
PCSO MEDICAL AID 2025 – Here is a guide on the coverage and the requirements in applying for the medical assistance offer of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.
The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office or more popularly called PCSO is undeniably most popular for its lotto games. It conducts several major and minor lottery games daily and millions of Filipinos are probably taking their chances to be the next lotto winner.
However, what many people don’t know is that the state entity does not only offer the lottery games or a franchise of a PCSO lotto outlet to qualified individuals but as well as a PCSO medical aid program — the IMAP or the Individual Medical Assistance Program.
In fact, countless Filipinos have availed the assistance provided by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office under its Individual Medical Assistance Program which is its flagship program for health-related concerns. It was institutionalized in 1995 and has a wide coverage.
The PCSO medical aid is open for individuals who are confined in any health facility, receive healthcare management as outpatients, and those who seek management in other countries as the Philippine healthcare system is not capabale to provide the treatment or procedure needed by the patient.
As mentioned above, the PCSO medical aid has a wide coverage. It is open to assist in the following health-related situations.
- Hospital Admission – Filipino patients who are currently confined or have been discharged from the hospital but has isued a promissory note due to a hospital bill balance
- Medicines – Financial assistance for qualified individuals including the cases of needing nti-rabies shot, factor 8 and 9, psychiatric, post-transplant, post operative, antibiotics, and intravenous immunoglonulin (IVIG)
- Cancer Treatment – Patients under cancer treatments like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, brachytherapy, radioactive iodine, stereotactic radiosurgery or gamma knife
- Dialysis – Dialysis patients who undergo treatments like Hemodialysis and Peritoneal (Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis or CAPD)
- Surgical supplies, laboratory and diagnostic procedure
- Medical Devices – Patients who are in need of 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
- Transplant procedures – Those who need to undergo transplant procedures like kidney transplant and liver transplant
- Implant – Patients who need bone or cochlear transplant
- Rehabilitative Therapy – physical, occupational, and speech therapy
- Cardio procedures – Patients who need to undergo cardio-related operations like the 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
- Non-invasive and minimally invasive procedures – Patients who need to undergo Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL), Laparoscopic surgery, and Endoscopic procedures
What are the requirements in applying for the PCSO medical aid program? Here are a few documents generally required by the healthcare assistance provider under the IMAP:
- 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)
In another case, you might be wondering about the franchise fee in applying for a PCSO lotto franchise.