The Health
Insurance Service Providers Association of Ghana (HISPAG) has served notice it
will suspend services to patients across the country if the National Health
Insurance Authority (NHIA) fails to pay their claims which is in arrears.HISPAG
says all payments to their members have been suspended pending the conclusion
of a probe by the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) into NHIA activities.
The BNI
has been investigating cases of fraudulent payment to some health institutions
and recently froze the accounts of former CEO Sylvester Mensah.
Executive
Director of HISPAG Frank Torblu says the decision to suspend payment to service
providers is unjustified.
He said
the NHIA owes the service providers over 600 million Ghana cedis in seven
months' arrears.
"They
are saying that they are not going to pay the providers until they have
completed their investigations and we are saying that should the
hospital, clinics and maternity homes across the country also suspend provision
of services to the generality of the people until that investigation is
complete?" Frank Torblu quizzed.
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