Also plans to cover crutches, wheelchairs, canes PhilHealth scrapped its single period of confinement policy to allow beneficiaries to be covered more than once for the same illness in a 90-day period. PhilHealth Senior Vice President Israel Francis Pargas said the state health insurer is also studying the possibility of covering assistive devices. “As a response to the request of our members, and of course of some lawmakers, we are now studying the possibility of covering assistive...