Hospitalization Expense Benefit.
Article 236
ART. 236. Hospitalization Expense Benefit. — Under such rules, regulations and/or conditions as the SSS and GSIS may prescribe, subject to the approval of the Commission, an employee who is confined in a hospital on account of sickness or bodily injury requiring hospitalization, shall be entitled to confinement not exceeding forty-five (45) days annually to: Room and board expense benefit for each day of confinement in a hospital not exceeding twelve pesos (P12) a day; and Special charge expense benefit for charges necessary for the care of the employee, such as laboratory examination fees, drugs, X-ray, operating room and the like, not to exceed one hundred fifty pesos (P150). For drugs and medicines that may be essential under paragraph (b), the employee shall have the option to secure the same from either the hospital pharmacy wherein he is confined or from any retail drugstore of his own choice, subject only to the rules and regulations promulgated by the Commission.