NHIS law to be reviewed next year

Koforidua, Dec. 17, GNA - The Southern Zone Co-ordinator of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Mr Collins Akuamoah Danso, on Wednesday said the law governing the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) would be reviewed next year to ensure efficiency of the scheme. He said to ensure uniformity and standardization in the implementation of the scheme the NHIA had developed an operational manual and monitoring and evaluation tools to guide every scheme.

He said all public schemes were expected to abide by the manual and the monitoring and evaluation tools adding that any scheme that consistently departed from it would be sanctioned. Mr Danso was speaking at the opening of a three-day training workshop on operational manual and monitoring and evaluation tools for officials of the District Mutual Health Insurance Schemes in the Eastern Region in Koforidua on Wednesday.

He said the directives in the manuals superseded all other instructions given previously.

Mr Danso said from next year, decisions of local boards that conflicted with the directions in the manuals would not be implemented by any scheme. The Eastern Regional Manager of the NHIA, Mr Windhan Emil Afram, said the one time premium that would be implemented next year would ensure that people would not spend much on their health. Mr Afram said concrete measures had been put in place to ensure that service providers were paid regularly for their service to ensure that they continued to offer uninterrupted service to their clients. 17 Dec. 09