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 […]
Government is considering including ambulance services as part of the National Health Insurance Scheme. This means that if you have a valid National Health Insurance Card and you are in need of the services of an ambulance, it will be delivered to you without any cost irrespective of your location. Minister for health, Kwaku Agyemang […]
Former Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority, Sylvester Mensah has blamed the under performance of the scheme to the inability of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government at the time, to allocate enough resources to the scheme for its operations. According to him, he will not take any blame for the abysmal […]
The National Health Insurance Authority says it is in the process of appointing a suitably qualified company to partner it to migrate from the current manual processing of claims, to an electronic management of claims. The Authority says it is currently in the procurement process and has called for companies with the expertise, capacity and […]
