NHIA to digitize tasks in year and a half completely
Correspondences and Media Relations Manager at the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Barima Sarpong, has unveiled that his outfit will inside the following year and a half completely digitize its tasks.
This, as per him, is essential for the vision of the CEO of the Authority, Bernard Okoe-Boye to change the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).
He expressed that the digitisation will likewise address delays related with claims by medical services suppliers under the NHIS.
Mr. Sarpong offered the remark while tending to worries raised about the plan on Joy FM's Super Morning Show on Wednesday, July 13.
He recognized that postpone in installment of cases is a key test that is crashing the advancement of the plan. The digitisation of tasks would in this way assist with settling it.
"On the issue of the deferred claims, there isn't simply a solitary variable. Per plan with suppliers, a supplier has around 60 days to set up a case and submit it. Some exhaust the 60 days, others submit on time, and others even go past the 60 days.
"Yet, regardless, per a similar understanding the NHIS has got, it requires 90 days which is likewise around 90 days. So in light of excess we would normally utilize the 90 days to vet and deal with the case and this game plan gives a window of around 5 months to owe them and we understand that this doesn't help."
"So as a component of his vision, the CEO of the NHIA has guaranteed that in around 12 to year and a half, we are going completely electronic concerning claims the board. Past CEOs, to the credit of Dr Samuel Yaw Annor and Dr Lydia Djane Selby, gave their all and at this point we have around 42% of our cases being handled electronically however the point is to reach no less than 80% to 100 percent," he said.
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