{"id":117523,"date":"2015-05-19T19:09:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T19:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=117523"},"modified":"2015-05-19T19:17:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T19:17:55","slug":"80-percent-of-nhis-debts-settled-private-clinics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/05\/80-percent-of-nhis-debts-settled-private-clinics\/","title":{"rendered":"80 percent of NHIS debts settled &#8211; Private clinics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About eighty percent of the Hospitals under the \u00a0the Society of\u00a0Private Medical and Dental\u00a0 Practitioners group across\u00a0 the country\u00a0 are now offering services to NHIS card holders.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed by the National President of the Society, Dr Odoi Agyarko.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;1aCPf3aBoLtdxeBNn6zWLQRBKLHcQGW2&#8243;]\u00a0The Society of Private Medical and Dental Practitioners which\u00a0 is one of the groups of the National Health Insurance Authority( NHIA) stopped providing services to patients on the NHIS \u00a0about two weeks ago, following the failure of the Authority to settle its debts to members.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of<a class=\"wnagykbcaw\" title=\"Click to Continue &gt; by ShopDrop\" href=\"#\"> finance<img src=\"http:\/\/cdncache-a.akamaihd.net\/items\/it\/img\/arrow-10x10.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\u00a0says it has fulfilled all financial obligations to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for the 2015 fiscal year to enable it pay the \u00a0debts owed service providers.<\/p>\n<p>Following this, the \u00a0National President of\u00a0 the Society, Dr Odoi Agyarko told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, he has issued a communiqu\u00e9 to all members not to now begin accepting NHIS\u00a0 card bearers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pearl Akanya Ofori\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About eighty percent of the Hospitals under the \u00a0the Society of\u00a0Private Medical and Dental\u00a0 Practitioners group across\u00a0 the country\u00a0 are now offering services to NHIS card holders. 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