OWWA Memorandum of Instructions No. 019 (1995)

(NAR) VOL. 7 NO. 1 / JANUARY-MARCH 1996

[ OWWA MEMORANDUM OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 019, S. 1995, December 11, 1995 ]

DECENTRALIZATION OF MEDICARE REGISTRATION PROCESS

In the interest of the service and in order to decentralize Medicare registration at the regional level, the following procedural guidelines shall be observed:

A. Application for Medical Coverage for Regional Applicants Shall be Filed at the Regional OWWA Unit (ROU) Responsibility Center Activity 1. Filipino Overseas Fills up the Medicare Information Sheet (MIS) and Contract Worker submits the same to the Medicare Clerk for verification Verifies the MIS and forwards the application to the 2. General Clerk Cashier if found eligible 3. Filipino Overseas Pays the Medicare Premium Contract Worker Receives premium payment and issues corresponding 4. Cashier receipt Encodes pertinent data to generate the Medicare 5. General Clerk Eligibility Certificate (MEC); Files the MIS 6. ROU Supervisor Initials the MEC 7. General Clerk Releases the MEC to the OCW B. Application for Exemption From Medicare Coverage An OCW who has an existing coverage of the Medicare program thru his active status under the SSS/GSIS Voluntary Membership Program shall be exempted from mandatory coverage. Responsibility Center Activity 1. Filipino Overseas Fills up the MIS and presents proofs of active SSS/GSIS Contract Worker membership2. General Clerk Verifies the documents Prepares a Certificate of Exemption from Medicare Coverage Files MIS 3. ROU Supervisor Signs the Certificate of Exemption 4. General Clerk Releases the Certificate of Exemption to the OCW C. Report Requirement At the end of the day, the General Clerk shall generate the Report of MECs Generated/Certificates of Exemption issued. For control measures, the supervisor shall ensure that collection tallies with the number of MECs generated. These reports shall be backed-up on a disk. To ensure effectiveness and timeliness of information, the diskette together with the hard copy of the enrollees/exempted shall be forwarded to the Registration and Management Information Systems Division of the Medicare Assistance Program for database updating every Wednesday. For compliance. Adopted: 11 December 1995.

(SGD) WILHELM D. SORIANO Administrator