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TECHNICAL TERMS
| Ambulatory Services | Ambulatory services are those extended to
patients who are treated for a specific minor surgical
procedure or who undergo other treatments that keep them in
the hospital for less than 24 hours regardless of the hour of
admission, and whether or not they use a bed or whether or not
they remain in the hospital past midnight.
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| Compensable Death | When death is the result of a work-related
injury or sickness.
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| Compensable Injury | An injury is compensable when it was
sustained due to an accident arising out of and in the course
of employment.
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| Compensable Sickness | Any sickness is compensable when it is
listed by the ECC as an "occupational disease" [RELATED INFORMATION].
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| Disability | Disability means the loss or damage of a physical or mental function that prevents an employee from performing his/her work, or from being engaged in any gainful occupation. |
| Employer’s Logbook | Every employer shall keep a logbook to
record chronologically every incidence of injury, sickness or
death of his/her employees, whether compensable or not as
reported to him/her or of which he/she has knowledge.
The entry should state the NAME of the employee, the DATE, the PLACE and NATURE of the contingency, and the employee’s ABSENCES.
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| Increased Risk | There is increased risk if the illness is
caused or precipitated by factors inherent in the employees’
nature of work and working conditions. However, it does not
include aggravation of a pre-existing illness.
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| Medical or Related Benefits | Medical benefits are all payments made to
the providers of medical care, rehabilitation services and
hospital care that are extended to employees for work-related
injury, sickness or disability.
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| Permanent Partial Disability (PPD) |
A disability which causes the harmful
loss, permanently, of the use of any part of an employee’s
body
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| Permanent Total Disability (PTD) |
A Permanent Total Disability is any of the
following:
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| Primary Beneficiaries |
The primary beneficiaries are the
legitimate husband or wife who is living with the employee
when the employee dies, until he or she remarries; and – The
legitimate, legitimated, legally adopted or acknowledged
natural children who are unmarried, not gainfully employed and
not over 21 years of age.
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| Rehabilitation Services | Rehabilitation services are services
designed to help an injured or disabled employee, entitled to
such services, attain the restoration of his/her physical
capacity to the maximum level as early as possible so that
he/she can remain to be productive and useful member of
society.
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| Secondary Beneficiaries | Are the legitimate parents wholly
dependent upon the employee for support, and – The legitimate
descendants and illegitimate children who are unmarried, not
gainfully employed and not over 21 years of
age. | Temporary Total Disability (TTD) | TTD is a disability that prevents an
employee from performing his/her work for a continuous period
not exceeding 120 days, except when such disability still
requires medical attendance beyond 120 days, but not to exceed
240 days.
If the disability is the result
of an injury or sickness, the period of compensability shall
be counted from the FIRST DAY of such injury or
sickness. |
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or e-mail at ecc@iconn.com.ph