We owe higher tier hospitals only two-months – NHIA CEO

Da-Costa Aboagye, has assured that his organization is collaborating closely with the Ministry of Finance to settle debts owed to health facilities.

Despite reports suggesting that the NHIA has accumulated significant debts to health facilities over several months, Dr Aboagye, in an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Face to Face on Citi TV, stated that payments for November are currently being processed for payment in April.

He commended the government for maintaining the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), noting that they owe only two months of payments to higher-tier hospitals.

When you submit your claim as a hospital, we vet, so you see that some of the months, some hospitals may not pass the validation.

But that is not bad, we’re working with the finance ministry, they will give us money.

I have all the assurances from the finance ministry that they will pay us.”

He mentioned that they will review tariffs to commiserate with the current economic conditions of Ghanaians.