The Philippines Insurance Commission issued Advisory No. RS-2025-009 encouraging the public to explore gender-specific insurance and health maintenance organization (HMO) products that address distinct health risks, while also calling on supervised insurers and HMOs to develop and offer such products. The advisory highlights coverage areas including maternal care, critical illness protection, reproductive health services, and gender-specific medical treatments. It also underscores the importance of capturing and generating sex-disaggregated data to better understand which insurance and HMO products are best suited to women’s and men’s needs across their life cycles and financial capability, and provides a list of approved gender-specific products and their salient features.
Philippines Insurance Commission 2025-03-27
Philippines Insurance Commission issues advisory promoting gender-specific insurance and HMO products and urges industry to develop gender-sensitive offerings
The Philippines Insurance Commission issued Advisory No. RS-2025-009 urging the public to consider gender-specific insurance and health maintenance organization (HMO) products. The advisory emphasizes the development of products covering maternal care, critical illness, reproductive health, and gender-specific treatments, and highlights the need for sex-disaggregated data to tailor offerings to different needs.