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NHIA Pays More Claims In 2021

  The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has paid a grand total of Ghs290, 890, 982.00 (Two Hundred and Ninety Million, Eight Hundred and Ninety Thousand, Nine Hundred and Eighty-Two Cedis) to its credentialled service providers in 2021 alone. The payments were made between 1st January to 27th April in which public healthcare facilities received the most. Representing 51.18 per cent, Ghs148,888,834.25 was paid to the public healthcare facilities while private facilities received Ghs80,993,592.48, measured at 27.84 per cent. Mission facilities received Ghs57,081,609.49, signifying 19.62 per cent while Quasipublic facilities have been paid Ghs3,926,945.77, representing 1.35 per cent. The Chief Executive, Dr Lydia Dsane-Selby pledged in an earlier interview that the NHIA valued the partnership it has with healthcare service providers and entreated Your access to healthcare all healthcare providers to make timely claims submissions to allow for prompt payments.

Ghana s 2020 Health Sector Performance Mixed | Health

  Mr Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, the Minister of Health, has described Ghana’s health sector performance for the year 2020 as mixed, saying although tremendous progress was made in some indicators, “a number of our milestones suffered.” The Health Minister, who was addressing the National Health Sector Annual Summit for 2021, which opened in Accra, said there was a clear indication that the sector, had recorded significant performance in some areas, for which it must be congratulated. Unfortunately, the sector failed to achieve, for instance, the target of 62 per cent skilled delivery in 2020 and instead, recorded 55.4 per cent, while institutional neonatal mortality also worsened from 7.3 per 1,000 live births to 7.5 per 1000 live births within the period, he said.

NHIA Hastens Investigations Into Cases Of Extortions

  The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) is on a manhunt for credentialled service providers who are demanding extra money (out of pocket payments) for medical services covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). In collaboration with the law enforcement agencies, the Authority has hastened its investigations into widespread cases of extortions and will soon punish the offenders. This comes at the back of recent complaints by the Scheme’s members who are livid over the conduct of some service providers at the point of healthcare delivery.   The Authority’s Deputy Chief Executive in charge of Operations, Mrs Vivian Addo-Cobbiah, brought this to the fore when she met a team from Corruption Watch Ghana. “There is no justification for providers charging the Scheme’s members for services funded by the NHIS.”

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