Private Health Facilities Association of Ghana has issued a strong warning, indicating its intention to stop accepting Private Health Insurance in the near future.
This decision is prompted by the National Health Insurance Authority’s failure to regulate Private Insurance Companies, leading to outstanding debts owed to the association’s members.
The association states that this has resulted in their inability to meet financial obligations such as paying salaries and procuring essential medical and non-medical supplies.
Speaking to Citi News, the General Secretary of the Association, Frank Torbu, emphasised that the grace period for resolution is long overdue and places the responsibility on the government to ensure timely payments from private insurance companies.
“It wouldn’t be long; we will take them on. We won’t accept their cards when they visit our facilities, and I make it categorically clear that we don’t even need them to survive as a healthcare provider, but they need us to be in business.”
Frank-Torbu further added, “So those companies that have been signing on to these private health insurance companies, thinking that they are safe, I can tell you for sure that you are not at all because when we trigger that, we are no longer going to accept them in our facilities, premised on the fact that the insurance company they are bringing to our facilities, that is where they would begin to see the wrong in what the insurance companies are doing.”
“It is the responsibility of the government to ensure that whichever company they give credentials, accreditation or a licence to operate as a private health insurance company in this country lives up to expectations, but that is not what the government is doing—I mean the National Health Insurance Authority,” he revealed.
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