The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) issued Philhealth Circular No. 030 s-2000 requiring all accredited healthcare providers, regional health insurance offices and all others concerned to strictly comply with Republic Act 3573, The Law of Reporting Communicable Diseases. RA 3573 provides that “any person may be inoculated, administered or injected with prophylactic preparations in order to prevent and suppress communicable diseases.”