The Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG) has ordered its member institutions throughout the country to restore its services to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cardholders with immediate effect.
CHAG instructed all of its 183 member institutions to withhold its services from NHIS card holders since the Authority was indebted to CHAG to the tune of 50 million cedis.
The decision greatly affected patients in the rural hospitals who depended on these mission hospitals for health care delivery.
A joint press statement issued by CHAG and NHIA however, indicated that “based on the above understandings, CHAG has agreed that services to NHIS cardholders be restored by CHAG member institutions throughout the country with immediate effect”
Both parties further indicated that they had resolved to facilitate the payment of delayed claims for March, 2014 saying “the NHIA will thereafter work with CHAG to define a claims payment time lag that ensures certainty of payments taking into account current constraints and bearing in mind the legally mandated reimbursement period of 90 days”
Click here to read statement by CHAG and NHIA
By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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