The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) should provide registration desks for expectant mothers at health facilities.doi:10.1111/1467-8268.12412Richard AgbanyoAfrican Development BankAfrican Development Review
The DMHIS are autonomous from each other but all operate under the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). The new NHI Act of 2012 (Act 852) merges all the DMHIS to form a nationwide National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) which every resident of Ghana shall belong to [37]. The ...
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana has three key stakeholders: National Health Insurance Authority, preferred primary providers (PPP) and subscribers. Since the introduction of the capitation payment method (CPM), research has focused on the NHIS and care providers with little ...
An interesting example of such an initiative is thedigital renewal processof Ghana's National Health Insurance Authority, whose role is to ensure access to basic healthcare services for all residents. While each year around 11 million members renew their membership in person at a NHIA district off...
In this case, the National Health Insurance Authority in Ghana must take the additional step of ensuring the system’s financial stability and sustainability in order to minimize providers’ incentive to charge patients for services that should be covered under the SHI. Finally, although clients ...
Rather than two thirds of the population being covered by the scheme, as Ghana's National Health Insurance Authority and the World Bank have claimed, less than a fifth of Ghanaians could be benefiting, the charity says. Its report claims that most people have to continue to pay out of ...
Ghana’s healthcare sectors are faced with several financial challenges due to increased funding cuts and delayed reimbursement from the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). This has necessitated nurse manager to build financial management skills to enable them to lead in the provision of effect...
while those without NHIS cards and non-members were excluded from the study. The two categories of persons were NHIS implementers and beneficiaries. The implementers were the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) staff while the beneficiaries were NHIS members. We used two sets of interview ...
Mobile healthcare payments platform mTOMADY is preparing to expand to Ghana in cooperation with the country’s National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA). A pilot will be conducted in Kumasi, Ghana, to test the integration of mTOMADY with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in ...
2010, Accra, Ghana: National Health Insurance Authority Google Scholar Agyepong I, Yankah B: Understanding the NHIS Provider Payment System and Capitation. 2011, Accra, Ghana: Ghana Health Service, Accessed September 24, 2012. http://www.nhis.gov.gh/_Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/12.pdf Google...