The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr Victor Bampoe, has said stringent measures have been put in place to check fraudulent claims by service providers.
This he said was part of the President’s vision in resetting the institution as the country strives for the attainment of universal healthcare coverage.
A roundtable discussion with the Board of Directors of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital on May 9 triggered the conversation about claims and sustenance.
“We are going to put measures in place to ensure that, if there are any illegalities in terms of fraudulent claims and so on, those detected are dealt with because it is the taxpayers money and we don’t want it to be going into the wrong hands” he told Evans-Nkum on the sidelines of the meeting.
Dr Bampoe also assured of prompt payment of claims “because of what the President did in uncapping the fund, there is a lot of funding. We will be paying more regularly; the service tariff will be reviewed more regularly, the drug tariff will be reviewed more regularly. Under my tenure, I want to ensure that all the money that we pay goes actually to reimburse for actually services, for actual drugs that have been purchased, ” he said.
