Section 3. Definition of Terms.— For purposes of this Act, the following terms shall mean:

1. DOH Hospital refers to a hospital under the management and administration of the Department of Health (DOH), including the four (4) corporate hospitals under the Secretary of Health, namely: the Philippine Heart Center, Lung Center of the Philippines, National Kidney and Transplant Institute and the Philippine Children’s Medical Center;

2. Financial Assistance refers to monetary aid, in the form of guaranty letter, cash or check, which covers burial, transportation, and other allied assistance or physical aid, such as food, clothing, general assistive devices, given by agencies and mandated by existing laws, rules and regulations to provide such assistance;

3. Financially incapacitated patient refers to a patient who is not classified as indigent but who demonstrates clear inability to pay or spend for necessary expenditures for one’s medical treatment, such as patients with catastrophic illness or any illness, which is life or limb-threatening and requires prolonged hospitalization, extremely expensive therapies or other special but essential care that would deplete one’s financial resources, as assessed and certified by the medical social worker;

4. Indigent Patient refers to patient who has no visible means of income, or whose income is insufficient for the subsistence of his/her family, as assessed by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), local government social worker or the medical social worker of the health facility;

5. Medical Assistance refers to assistance for out-of-pocket expense in the form of coupon, stub, guaranty letter, promissory note or voucher that has monetary value, given directly to recipients or beneficiaries to be used for the purchase of drugs, medicines, goods or other services prescribed by the physician of a health facility for in- and out-patients;

6. One-Stop Shop refers to a common site or location designated to receive and process requests for medical and financial assistance for indigent and financially incapacitated patients;

7. Out-of-pocket expense refers to medical and surgical services arising from hospitalization not currently paid for or sufficiently covered by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) benefits, insurance coverage, discounts, or other sources of similar nature;

8. Patient navigation refers to directing and assisting an individual to obtain health care services and overcome barriers for timely, cost-effective and appropriate medical care; and

9. Philippine General Hospital (PGH) refers to the state-owned tertiary hospital administered and operated by the University of the Philippines-Manila.