PhilHealth YAKAP (Konsulta): what it covers and how to sign up

YAKAP (Yaman ng Kalusugan Program) is PhilHealth’s primary care package. PhilHealth Circular No. 2025-0017 calls it “an evolution of the PhilHealth Konsulta Program”, and PhilHealth’s member registration form (PMRF) still has a box for a “Preferred KonSulta Provider”. It covers check-ups with a primary care clinic you register with, a set list of lab tests, some cancer screening tests and outpatient medicines. Every member and every dependent can use it. Public YAKAP facilities should not charge you, and a private YAKAP clinic can charge at most PHP 900 per member per year.

What YAKAP is, and its older names

Circular No. 2025-0017 (published 18 October 2025) says YAKAP grew out of earlier primary care packages: “In previous issuances, it has been called Primary Care Benefit 1 (PCB1), Expanded Primary Care Benefit (EPCB), PhilHealth Tsekap and PhilHealth Konsulta.” If you registered with a Konsulta provider before, you are dealing with the same kind of benefit under its newer name. PhilHealth’s circulars don’t give a date for the change of name, so check your current registration with your clinic or PhilHealth.

What is included

Circular No. 2026-0007 (published 9 June 2026) says YAKAP brings together three things: primary care services, the PhilHealth GAMOT outpatient medicines benefit, and selected cancer screening tests.

Lab and diagnostic tests listed on PhilHealth’s YAKAP page:

• complete blood count with platelet count, lipid profile, fasting blood sugar, oral glucose tolerance test and HbA1c;
• creatinine, urinalysis and fecalysis, and a fecal occult blood test;
• chest X-ray, sputum microscopy and ECG;
• Pap smear;
• ultrasound of the upper abdomen and the pelvis.

Cancer screening, from PhilHealth’s YAKAP FAQ: mammogram, breast ultrasound, low-dose chest CT scan, alpha fetoprotein test, liver ultrasound and colonoscopy.

Medicines. The FAQ lists 75 medicines (molecules) on the GAMOT list. Circular No. 2025-0013 sets a yearly benefit limit of PHP 20,000 for GAMOT, and says beneficiaries pay nothing out of pocket until it is used up. The FAQ says each dependent has a separate PHP 20,000.

The clinic decides which tests and medicines you need. This page describes the package; it is not medical advice.

What you pay. PhilHealth Advisory No. 2026-0003 (signed 8 January 2026) says: “You should NOT be asked to pay for YAKAP services in public facilities.” In a private YAKAP clinic the co-payment “is capped at P900 per member per year”.

How to register and pick a provider

You register with one primary care clinic, which then looks after you. Circular No. 2025-0017 lists these ways to register:

• the eGov PH Super App;
• the PhilHealth Member Portal;
• any PhilHealth office;
• the primary care clinic itself;
• PhilHealth’s Action Center and P-CARES help points.

After registering, you have a first visit at the clinic, called the First Patient Encounter, and sign the YAKAP Empanelment Slip. Dependents need to be registered too, not just the member.

Finding an accredited YAKAP provider

PhilHealth publishes its list of accredited YAKAP providers as a PDF on philhealth.gov.ph. The copy online on 20 October 2026 was updated as of 30 September 2026. Look up your city or municipality, and check the clinic is on the latest list before you register. Lists of GAMOT pharmacies and cancer screening facilities are in the same part of PhilHealth’s site.

Signing up a parent from abroad

Your parent can use YAKAP as your dependent if they are 60 or over and not a PhilHealth member themselves, or in their own right if they are a member or a senior citizen. What helps from abroad:

• Make sure your parent is declared on your PhilHealth record if they are your dependent. See PhilHealth dependents.
• Your parent can register at the chosen clinic or a PhilHealth office, or through the eGov PH app or the Member Portal. Someone at home can help with the app or go along.
• Your parent then goes to the clinic for the first visit and signs the empanelment slip.

Senior citizens are covered by PhilHealth in their own right. See PhilHealth for senior citizens.

What it does not cover

YAKAP is for primary care: check-ups, tests and medicines outside hospital. Hospital stays come under PhilHealth’s other benefits, paid as case rates. See PhilHealth benefits.

The rest of PhilHealth for OFWs and their families is on our PhilHealth guide.