Medical Expense Benefit.
Article 238
ART. 238. Medical Expense Benefit. — Under such rules, regulations and/or conditions as the SSS or the GSIS may prescribe, subject to the approval of the Commission, an employee who shall have received necessary professional medical treatment by a medical practitioner while confined shall be entitled to a medical expense benefit of P5.00 for each daily visit, but the maximum benefit shall not exceed one hundred pesos (P100) for a single period of confinement or for any one sickness or injury. In determining the compensable daily visit occasioned by any one sickness or injury not more than one visit for any one day shall be counted. Specialists who are properly certified by the Philippine Medical Association shall be entitled to collect ten pesos (P10.00) for each daily visit,