Dr. Lydia Dsane-Selby, acting CEO of NHIS
Private
health providers have served notice that they will soon implement a co-payment
system for healthcare if government fails to reimburse claims under the
National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on time.
Under
co-payment system, the cost of healthcare is shared between the patient and
healthcare purchaser.
The
group earlier threatened legal action against government for failing to pay
them 10 months accumulated arrears.
The
Public Relation Officer (PRO) for Private Health Facilities Association of
Ghana (PHFAG), Samuel Donkor, said they are likely to adopt the co-payment
system if the government fails to settle outstanding monies.
“Within
these two weeks if they don’t pay us, then we go the co-payment, so that at
least we could survive. We don’t close down like the way others are closing
down. Some of us have really closed down due to this problem they have closed
down and they don’t want to work again because they don’t want to go through
this frustration. Those of us who are surviving too. If the government doesn’t
pay us then we cannot do anything but go through this co-payment,” he
disclosed.
In
May 2019, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Health Insurance
Authority (NHIA), Dr. Samuel Annor, warned that the NHIS may suffer because of
financing challenges.
Responding
to concerns from the PHFAG that the NHIS would be dead in a year’s time, he
said, “I wouldn’t say die but we would not be rendering the service we are
supposed to render. Between 2009 and now, we have just been piling debts.”
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