A monitoring exercise carried out by the National Health Insurance Authority, NHIA, has revealed that some health facilities in the Tamale Metropolis impose illegal charges on patients for services already covered by the National Health Insurance Scheme.
The Tamale Metropolitan Manager of NHIA, Abdul-Ganiyu Ahmed, who announced this, said Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Tamale Central Hospital, Tamale West Hospital, Kabsad Scientific Hospital, and One Heart Hospital are amongst the major health facilities in the Metropolis, which are illegally charging patients for services that are already covered by NHIS.
He was presenting the findings of the monitoring report at a stakeholders’ engagement organised by the NHIA in Tamale and attended by representatives of some health facilities in the area.
Mr Ahmed cautioned all health facilities engaging in the act in the Metropolis to desist from it as such developments are discouraging the public from enrolling on the NHIS. He warned the identified facilities that they would be made to face the laws of the land.
The Director in charge of Claims Processing Centre at NHIA in the Tamale Metropolis, Isaac Akonde, said an Illegal Co-payment Committee has been set up to enable the NHIA to arrest the situation and help bring finality to the development, which is widespread in the metropolis.
Representatives of various health facilities, who were present, expressed their readiness to address the situation.
SOURCE: GNA
