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NATIONAL HOSPITAL INSURANCE FUND NHIF continues to disown Kenyans after it announced more services it will not be catering for anymore.
Listing essential emergency services which are critical in life saving, NHIF Chief Executive Officer Peter Kanyuro said Kenyans will have to pay for themselves this services: special surgeries, rehabilitation for drugs and substance abuse, emergency road evacuation, and imaging services such as X-RAYS, CT scans, and MRI.
“Once the patients exhaust their private cover while seeking treatment for those packages, we will pay the remainder of the fees,” Kamunyu stated.
He added that paying for special services is nolonger possible and cannot be sustained by the insurer.
A report seen from the Health Financing Reforms Expert Panel Report showed that the national health fund has been registering losses while paying for specialized surgery and major surgeries. It observed that the average cost per claim ranges from sh 263,000 and sh 86,592 respectively.
Details also showed that between 2018 – 2019, NHIF paid claims of upto sh 22 billion to private hospitals, sh 8 billion to Mission Hospital and sh 7 billion to public facilities.
Moreover, same records indicated that it spent another sh 7.7 billion to fly patients out for medication.
Members with NHIF are now blaming the organisation for rampant theft of public money instead of utilizing it for what it is intended for.
“Others just pay and get no services simply because we are not civil servants. It’s like we are paying for others to get the services. How comes I only can be paid for bed when admitted not even a single drug. This is funny,” Anthony Mwangi wrote on Facebook.
Now with the fresh threat to boycott paying for some essential medical cover, citizens seem to have been left alone at the time they are also struggling with Covid-19 and difficult economic time.
