About eighty percent of the Hospitals under the the Society of Private Medical and Dental Practitioners group across the country are now offering services to NHIS card holders.
This was revealed by the National President of the Society, Dr Odoi Agyarko.
[contextly_sidebar id=”1aCPf3aBoLtdxeBNn6zWLQRBKLHcQGW2″] The Society of Private Medical and Dental Practitioners which is one of the groups of the National Health Insurance Authority( NHIA) stopped providing services to patients on the NHIS about two weeks ago, following the failure of the Authority to settle its debts to members.
The Ministry of finance
says it has fulfilled all financial obligations to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for the 2015 fiscal year to enable it pay the debts owed service providers.
Following this, the National President of the Society, Dr Odoi Agyarko told Citi News, he has issued a communiqué to all members not to now begin accepting NHIS card bearers.
“By our estimates and collation of the data that we had from our colleagues we noticed that about 80 percent of my colleagues had been paid and roughly about 80 percent of the amount owed these people were also cleared.They received them in accounts. .. on Monday morning I instructed most of our members to start receiving patients who come with NHIS card so most of them have complied and they are taking the NHIA cards.” he stated.
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By: Pearl Akanya Ofori/citifmonline.com/Ghana