PhilHealth Z-Benefit Package for Kidney Transplantation
Package price: Php 1,200,000
Criteria:
1. Signed Member Empowerment (ME) Form
2. Age ›10 and ‹70 years
3. Single organ transplant
4. Patient on chronic dialysis because of end stage renal disease or patient for pre-emptive kidney transplantation with the following:
- a. The potential recipient should have an irreversible renal disease that has been progressive over the previous 6 – 12 months
- b. The recipient’s measured (nuclear scan) glomerular filtration rate, 24-hour urine creatinine clearance or calculated glomerular filtration rate should be less than 20 ml/min/1.73m2 in diabetics or less than 15 ml/min / 1.73m2 in patients with non-diabetic renal disease
5. Low immunologic risk defined as:
- a. Past Panel Reactive Antibody (PRA) less than or equal to 20%
- b. Primary kidney transplant (no previous solid organ transplant)
- c. No donor specific antibody (DSA) in the potential recipient
- d. At least 1 HLA-DR match
6. Potential recipient has no previous history of cancer (except basal cell skin cancer), should be HIV negative, Hepatitis B surface antigen negative, and Hepatitis C antibody negative
7. Transplant candidate who is CMV-negative cannot receive an organ from a CMV-positive donor.
8. Absence of current severe illness (Congestive heart failure Class 3-4, liver cirrhosis (findings of small liver with coarse granular/heterogonous echo pattern with signs of portal hypertension), chronic lung disease requiring oxygen, etc.)
9. Absence of the following: hemi-paralysis because of stroke, leg amputation because of peripheral vascular disease or diabetes, mental retardation such that informed consent cannot be made, and substance abuse for at least 6 months prior to start of transplant work-up.
10. Eligible patient for kidney transplant must have a certification from the social service of the hospital that they can maintain anti-rejection medicines for the next three (3) years.
Source: PhilHealth
For more information, please contact:
Kidney Transplant Office
2/F Main Hospital Building
889-DLSMC (35762)/ 530-45762 ext. 3531
ktu@dlsmc.ph