The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has recommended 223 health facilities for the take-off of Kano State Contributory Healthcare Scheme (KSCHS). The NHIS’s Zonal Coordinator in-charge of Northwest “B”, Alhaji Shu’aibu Ahmed Indabawa, made the disclosure in Kano on Tuesday at a sensitization workshop organized for Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs).He said NHIS had accredited 259 health facilities across the 44 local government areas of the state, out of which 223 were recommended for the scheme. He, however, charged the Maintenance Health Organizations to embark on rigorous sensitization of enrollees, saying NHIS would not facilitate patronage for any health facility involved in the scheme.
“I am also advising you to sensitize your neighboring facilities to refer enrollees to you especially those needing standalone secondary services for eye, laboratory and Diagnostic Centre, ENT and Physiotherapy services.
“You should also ensure effective and timely payment of capitation to primary facilities and free-for-service to secondary and tertiary facilities as well as issuing authorizations codes to facilities for referral,” he said.
The zonal coordinator warned health maintenance organizations to desist from the culture of delaying payments, underpayment and or nonpayment to facilities. He said, “NHIS will not tolerate such malpractices and will do everything possible to decisively deal with any organization caught in the act.”
In her remarks, the Executive Secretary, Kano State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency, Dr Halima Muhammad Mijinyawa, urged the health organizations to provide best services to the enrollees.
Dr Mijinyawa while assuring beneficiaries of the scheme of effective utilization of their money, said government was committed to successful implementation of the scheme.
Source:MWN
