The Western Regional Office of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), is engaging stakeholders on the one client, one service provider system (Capitation), to ensure a successful roll out of the new system.
Mrs Edna Gyau-Baffour, Acting Regional Director of the NHIA, who made this known in an interview with the GNA in Takoradi, said the capitation system has come to ensure that service providers live up to expectation in providing quality service delivery to clients.
The new scheme would also promote healthy competition among service providers since clients or patrons under the NHIA, have the rights to change their providers after six months or upon request by clients to the authority.
She mentioned that the scheme would eliminate the totally “Provider Shopping”, system which cost the Authority lots of money.
Mrs Gyau-Baffour said providers would be given an initial amount to finance the health care needs of patients of a selected facility particularly “Out patients Department” services adding, “fix fees are paid across board to selected providers”.
The Acting Director said once the NHIA disburses the fixed amount, providers would be forced to take good care of the clients, and any return to the same facility would be borne by the facility.
She said the first round of sensitization among District Chief Executives, District Health Directors among other stakeholders, had been organised whilst April 11- April 13 has been set for community level training and education.
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Source: GNA