Parliament has approved GH¢6.87 billion to enable the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to pay health insurance claims and undertake its activities earmarked for the year. The House also approved the 2024 distribution formula for disbursing the funds, which for the first time includes emergency support for needy dialysis patients. Enhanced funding for dialysis will […]
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has covered the bills of 226 child cancer patients since June last year. Following the addition of four childhood cancers to the list of ailments covered under the national health financing scheme in June 2022, 136 children with cancers visited designated health facilities between June and December last year, […]
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) hit an active membership of 17.2 million by the end of 2022, representing approximately 55 per cent of the population. The figure is the highest membership of the scheme at any particular period. At a news conference in Accra last Friday, the Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance […]
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has reviewed upwards the prices of medicines and services paid to providers and suppliers on the health insurance scheme, with effect from yesterday. It has also reviewed the list of medicines on the scheme to include, Artemether Injection 50mg/ml, which is widely used for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria […]
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) will from next 2023 add the treatment and medication for prostate cancer to the number of cancers treated free under the scheme. This is after the completion of actuarial studies conducted by the scheme proved its feasibility and practicality and is concluding with other final touches for takeoff. The Chief Executive of the NHIA, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, announced this when […]
The Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) has increased monthly pension payments by an average of 10 per cent. The review will see all 225,000 pensioners on the SSNIT pension payroll as of the end of last month have their monthly pensions increased by a fixed rate of 9.68 per cent, plus a redistributed […]
A data analysis on digitalising claims under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has recommended a full digitalisation of all NHIS claims as the key strategic policy action for the future of the NHIS. It revealed the need for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to fully digitalise its claims submission and vetting process to […]
The National Health Insurance Scheme card will be phased out at the end of the year, with the function to be transferred to the Ghana Card. Nearly half of the Ghanaian population have registered onto the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), enabling them to access healthcare services in public facilities and some private outfits. In […]
The Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof Mohammed Sambo has said some levels of cancer surgeries and chemotherapy are now covered under the Scheme. Prof Sambo made this known while receiving the First Lady of Kebbi State, Dr Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, who was on a working visit to NHIS head office in Abuja Wednesday. […]
Former President John Mahama says the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIA) needs new sources of funding. “We are also proposing sources of funding for the Health Insurance. The health insurance as it was designed was to cover a period of ten years. “We have gone far past that number of years and the subscriber base […]
The Africa Centre for Health Policy Research and Analysis (ACH-PRA) is asking the Minister for Health to step up his game by devising innovative ways to salvage the National Health Insurance Scheme from its skyrocketing debts. The Policy Think-tank which just issued a document entitled ‘’is government contributing to the collapse of the NHIS and […]
The Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr. Samuel Annor leaves office after 2 years of dedicated service to the nation and the Authority. Dr. Annor was appointed as the Chief Executive of the NHIA by His Excellency the President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo to assume office in March, 2017 at a […]
