NHIA Deputy Chief Executive for Operations visits the F. Alpha and Omega Specialist Hospital | 7/15/2024

Deputy Chief Executive in charge of Operations for the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Louisa Atta-Agyemang (Mrs.), on June 25, 2024 paid a working visit to the F. Alpha and Omega Specialist Hospital in Madina, in the Greater Region. The move formed part of efforts to strengthen the NHIA's bond with credentialed healthcare providers and to ensure that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) active members are well caterered for at the point of need without incurring extra costs.

 

She interacted with some NHIS members on admission in various wards and they confided in her that the NHIS covered all their medical bills. The patients expressed their profound gratitude for not paying extra monies for services covered by the NHIS.

 

Mrs. Atta-Agyemang commended the hospital's management for their exemplary services, highlighting credentialed healthcare providers role in enhancing the sustenance of the NHIS. She was pleased with the hospital management's initiative to register and renew expired cards for patients free of charge and called on other credentialled healthcare providers to adopt similar practices to enhance accessibility to quality healthcare and as revive public trust in the NHIS.

 

She advised credentialed healthcare providers to desist from extorting monies (illegal charges) from NHIS members for services covered by the Scheme, adding that it is punishable by law.

 

Chief Executive Officer of the F. Alpha and Omega Specialist Hospital, Mr. Francis Fosu said management targets registering 20,000 more people onto the NHIS for free. According to him, 7,000 people were so far registered as at the time of the delegation's visit to the facility.