Nkwanta health scheme makes strides

Nkwanta (V/R), Sept. 26, GNA - Mr Simon Anane-Quarshie, Krachi West District Mutual Health Insurance Scheme (KWDMHIS) Manager, has appealed to health care providers in the district working with the scheme to submit their claims to the schemes early enough for payment. He said late submission of claims was the main cause of delay in claims payment.

Mr Anane-Quarshie told the GNA in an interview that the KWDMHIS had devised strategies where advance payments are made to health providers even before vetting of claims.

He said the scheme had never been indebted to any health provider and that it has 17,354 card bearing members. Mr Anane-Quarshie said the scheme had raised 287,818,000 cedis as premium from the informal sector and received 2.1 billion cedis as government subsidy.

Mr Anane-Quarshie said though the Scheme had problems reaching island communities, it had decentralized its activities to get more people enrolled to meet the 60 per cent target by the end of the year.