NHIS better under NPP; the deadline for the payment of claims is 5 months

General News of Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-04-16

The deadline for settling claims with service providers by the national health insurance scheme has been reduced from two years to five months.

Dr Dsane-Selby, interim managing director of NHIS, informed the media on Tuesday at the Ministry of Information in Accra.

It responded to claims by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the regime was about to collapse under the administration of the New Patriotic Party, chaired by President Akufo-Addo.

At a news conference in Accra on Monday, NDC National Communications Officer Sammy Gyamfi accused the NPP government of mismanaging the NHIS, adding that the project was heavily indebted to services.

The NDC also claimed that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) did not do due diligence before investing 17.5 million GH with a capital investment of all time.

The NDC's request proved to be inaccurate.

The NHIA documents available for DGN Online suggest that the Authority's investment with All-Time Capital was initiated by the Mahama administration in July 2012.

But Dr. Dsane-Selby told reporters that the program was better managed today than under the NDC administration, headed by former president John Mahama.

She pointed out that unlike the time when the NDC administration had settled claims or debts in two years, the claims were currently settled within five months.

She said the goal of current NHIS officials was to further reduce the timeframe from five months to three months.

When this is achieved, she said, the debt would be at a level where it would be manageable or sustainable, stating that there was no health insurance plan in the world who is not indebted to service providers.

She explained to the NDC that after taking office on January 7, 2017, NPP realized that the February 2016 compensation claims were still unpaid.

Akufo-Addo is truthful

President Nana Akufo-Addo, in her recent State of the Nation address on February 21, and her engagement with Ghanaians living in the United States, observed that the NHIS was dynamic and that he came back to life with all the logistical and financial support provided by this government. government.

Deputy Information Minister Pius Enam Hadzide told reporters that "the president has not peddled the lie and the president is certainly not lying, because the NDC would like the brave people of Ghana to believe it."

Reacting to the NDC's claims, he said: "The government is keen to badure the people of Ghana that the NHIS is certainly not about to collapse, as the NDC claims."

Confusion galore

Presenting what he described as being the real situation, he said: "The government insists on declaring that this administration inherited a debt of 1.2 billion cedis left by the NDC. This debt has since been fully paid in full by the government led by Nana Addo. "

He added that "the NDC clearly confuses the funding gap of Cedis 425.7 million with a backlog of applications of Cedis 1.2 billion in December 2016, when they leave the office."

According to him, "for their education, the funding gap is the difference between the total debt and the money owed to the NHIS".

Regarding the alleged loss of confidence in the ploy, the deputy minister added: "It is also an obvious deception when the NDC claims that the scheme has lost confidence. Contrary to what they say, the facts show that registration of NHIS members has increased from 18.6 million in 2016 to 20.1 million in 2018. "

Once again, he revealed that "it is also important to indicate that the program records about 75,000 mobile renewals each week".

In addition, he said that the number of accredited institutions (health care providers who have signed contracts to attend the membership of NHIS members) has increased from 4,160 at the end of December 2016 to 4,520.

He stated that "for the record, we wish to announce that the number of active members of the system by January 2019 would be 10,793,456 more than the 2019 figure cited by the NDC".

The Minister added that "the government wishes once again to draw the attention of the general public to the fact that, as of April 1, 2019, the service rate due to the accreditation institutions has been increased by twenty percentage points. This will help improve the quality of service provided to members.
Ladies and Gentlemen, how can these statistics be described as a loss of confidence in the system? "