The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says the National Health Insurance Scheme’s (NHIS) coverage for renal diseases may be expanded to include other chronic diseases.
He disclosed that he has proposed this to the government and that efforts are being made to implement it.
According to him, the NHIA is running actuarial studies to inform the way forward.
“So my advice, which the government knows about and on which we are working together, is that we should look at it in totality. How do we fund chronic diseases, including dialysis?
“So what is happening is that we’ll use this as learning to obviously see what we can do. By that time, the actuarial study would have been ready,” Dr. Aboagye said.
He made the remarks in an interview on Joy News.
When asked to disclose the other conditions to be included, he said that he could not prematurely disclose any other details to prevent expectations.
“But what I know is that we are looking at it in totality. It’s not the case that we are only going to look at kidney diseases. We are going to look at other diseases. Governments do have a comprehensive plan from where I sit to not only focus on kidney diseases but other chronic diseases,” Dr. Aboagye added.
He also reiterated that the NHIA remains committed to rolling out preventive medical care.
This, he explained, would help in reducing the overall cost burden of healthcare.
“So the National Health Insurance Scheme, by next month, will be rolling out what we call preventive healthcare as part of the claims budget. The reason is that we cannot have a disease under the under the National Health Insurance Scheme.
“So far, since its inception, we have been focusing on curative care and services. How do we start from the basis by introducing something that will reduce these chronic diseases and the cost burden?”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
