By Bashir Bello, Kano
The National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS on Tuesday says it has recovered the sum of N2 billion debts from Health Maintenance Organizations, HMOs and unpaid bills to Health care facilities.
NHIS General Manager, Enforcement Department, Pharmacist Mohammad Ghali disclosed this during a stakeholders sensitization workshop held in Kano to strengthen effective operations of the scheme.
Ghali said it received complaints from the health care providers over HMO’s non-payment of services rendered to enrollees and to that effect, the scheme came up with a principle of reconciliation between the HMO’s and healthcare facilities leading to the recovery of the monies, N2 billion, which was later paid to the healthcare facilities.
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The National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, on Tuesday says it has recovered the sum of N2 billion debts from Health Maintenance Organizations, HMOs, and unpaid bills to Health care facilities.
NHIS General Manager, Enforcement Department, Pharmacist Mohammad Ghali, disclosed this during a stakeholders sensitization workshop held in Kano to strengthen effective operations of the scheme.
Ghali said it received complaints from the health care providers over HMO’s non-payment of services rendered to enrollees and to that effect, the scheme came up with a principle of reconciliation between the HMO’s and healthcare facilities leading to the recovery of the monies, N2 billion, which was later paid to the healthcare facilities.