How to register for PhilHealth online and get your PhilHealth ID

You register for PhilHealth online through PhilHealth’s own Member Portal, by choosing “PhilHealth Member Registration” and uploading your filled-in registration form and an ID. PhilHealth emails you your PhilHealth Identification Number (PIN) within three to five working days. Circular No. 2026-0011 names two other official ways: the eGovPH app, and the paper form at a PhilHealth office. The PhilHealth ID card is printed for you at a PhilHealth office, and PhilHealth lists no fee for it. You don’t need the card to use your benefits.

Who needs to register

• Direct contributors. The rules of the Universal Health Care Act say direct contributors “shall register and/or update their records”. They include OFWs, land-based and sea-based, Filipinos living abroad and dual citizens. Land-based OFWs pay their own premiums; a seafarer’s premium is shared with the manning agency, which deducts it from salary (Circulars No. 2020-0005 and 2020-0014).
• New employees in the Philippines register through their employer’s HR department and receive their Member Data Record and ID from the employer, according to PhilHealth’s registration page.
• Young people who were dependents. Children count as dependents while they are below 21, unmarried and unemployed. Once they are no longer dependents, they need their own membership. See PhilHealth dependents.
• Anyone with a PIN already keeps it. The registration form calls the PIN “your unique and permanent number”, and PhilHealth’s page on continuing your coverage tells members who leave for overseas work to give their existing PIN.

Under Circular No. 2026-0011, self-paying members are eligible for benefits as soon as they register. A patient who is not registered can also be registered by the hospital (Circular No. 2022-0013).

What you need

• The PhilHealth Member Registration Form (PMRF), from PhilHealth’s downloads page. Use your name as it appears on your birth certificate. A mobile number is required, and an email address is required for OFWs.
• Proof of identity: your birth certificate, or a valid government ID showing your date of birth. PhilHealth’s list includes a passport, driver’s licence, PRC, UMID, OWWA or OFW ID. PhilHealth accepts PSA e-certificates, including uploads (Advisory No. 2026-0051).
• Proof of income, if you pay your own premiums. For overseas Filipinos other than seafarers, Circular No. 2026-0011 accepts an employment contract or certificate of employment with salary, payslips or remittance receipts, an income tax return, or the income you declare and sign on the PMRF.

Registering online, step by step

1. Open PhilHealth’s Member Portal and choose PhilHealth Member Registration.
2. Enter a valid email address. PhilHealth says it “can only be used once”, and you may send only one application.
3. Upload your filled-in PMRF and supporting documents, such as your birth certificate or a valid ID. PhilHealth says an application without them “will be disregarded”.
4. Wait for the email. PhilHealth processes complete applications within three to five working days and sends your PIN to the email address you gave.
5. Create your Member Portal account with your new PIN, so you can see your record and pay online.

The portal shows a security check first. Follow the steps it shows after that.

In the eGovPH app. Circular No. 2026-0011 lists the eGovPH app as a way to register. The app checks who you are through your National ID or an in-app check with a valid ID and your face. PhilHealth hasn’t published step-by-step instructions for registering in the app.

Use only PhilHealth’s own sites. PhilHealth says official government websites “must strictly end with .gov.ph” (Advisory No. 2026-0024), and that it does not send text messages with links asking you to update your details (Advisory No. 2026-0032).

Getting your PhilHealth ID

• Where it comes from. PhilHealth’s Citizen’s Charter says its offices and PhilHealth Express outlets print the PhilHealth ID card and the Member Data Record when they register you, with no fee. You can ask for a copy at PhilHealth Express with a valid ID, or through someone else with your authorization letter and both your IDs.
• From abroad. PhilHealth’s desk for overseas Filipinos, in the Philippines, issues ID copies to walk-in clients only; its charter lists an email service for the PIN and the Member Data Record, but not for the ID card.
• You don’t need it for benefits. The Universal Health Care Act says the PhilHealth ID card “shall not be required in the availment of any health service” (RA 11223, Sec. 9). Bring another valid ID instead.
• It is a valid ID. The law says the card “shall be recognized as a valid government identification” (RA 10606, Sec. 6).

Registering from abroad

PhilHealth has no offices outside the Philippines. Its Citizen’s Charter lists a registration service by email for migrant workers, Filipinos living abroad and dual citizens. Send to ofp@philhealth.gov.ph:

• a scan of your filled-in PMRF;
• a scan of your birth certificate or a valid government ID with your date of birth, and a photo of yourself holding the ID;
• proof that you are an OFW now, such as your Overseas Employment Certificate or e-receipt, your work visa or re-entry permit, your employment contract, or the worker ID your host country issued. Seafarers send the Report of Employee-Members (ER2) filled in by their manning agency instead. Dual citizens and other Filipinos living abroad send an income tax return or a notarised affidavit of income.

The charter gives about three days by email and lists no fee. Someone in the Philippines can also file it for you in person, with your authorization letter and their own ID, the charter says. PhilHealth’s OFW brochure adds that OFWs can hand in their documents through their manning agency.

Setting up your Pag-IBIG membership too? See Pag-IBIG online registration.

After you register

1. Check your Member Data Record and declare your dependents. See the PhilHealth Member Data Record.
2. Pay your first premium. See how to pay PhilHealth online.

Everything else about PhilHealth for OFWs and their families is on our PhilHealth guide.