NHIA proposes 120% tariff increase

The Acting Chief Executive of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr Victor Asare Bampoe, says the authorization has projected a 120 per cent emergence successful work tariffs.

This, helium said, is to assistance halt patients from paying retired of pouch astatine hospitals.

Speaking successful a tv interrogation with Channel One TV connected Wednesday (Nov 27, 2025), Dr Bampoe said the connection followed a elaborate reappraisal by a radical of experts.

He added that the instrumentality requires the NHIA to reappraisal some work and medicine tariffs each year.

The medicines reappraisal has been completed, and the work tariffs are present earlier the NHIA board. After the board’s consideration, the connection volition beryllium sent to the Minister of Health for approval.

He said the existent tariffs are not realistic, which is wherefore immoderate patients are inactive asked to wage astatine hospitals.

According to him, galore work providers property the signifier to debased tariff levels.

“One of the areas of concern… 1 constituent successful my three-point imaginativeness is to marque definite patients person a due acquisition erstwhile they spell to hospitals. In galore hospitals that is not happening present due to the fact that they are asked to wage retired of pocket. Health providers archer america that we are not paying realistic tariffs, and that is wherefore that is happening. We deliberation that erstwhile we wage those tariffs, past determination volition beryllium nary excuse for the wellness providers to inquire patients to enactment their wealth successful their pockets,” helium said.

Dr Bampoe besides spoke astir the NHIA’s program to determination from a claims outgo assemblage to what helium described arsenic strategical wellness purchasing.

He said this attack uses authorities backing to signifier wellness outcomes and amended work delivery.

“We are a spending entity. We are trying to determination distant from being a claims outgo mechanics to a strategical wellness purchasing provider, which means we are capable to dictate wellness outcomes due to the fact that of the fiscal musculus that authorities provides america with. We are capable to find the prices of medicines, the prices of services and adjacent spell onto the planetary signifier and springiness immoderate benignant of level to sermon what benignant of wellness outcomes we want,” helium said.

He said the projected emergence forms portion of broader reforms aimed astatine strengthening cosmopolitan wellness sum and improving patients’ acquisition successful the wellness system.

“The National Health Insurance Scheme… is to wage claims. But present what we are looking astatine is getting cosmopolitan wellness sum for each Ghanaians. And cosmopolitan wellness sum has 3 pillars… colonisation coverage, work sum and fiscal protection… truthful that each Ghanaian surviving everyplace tin entree prime wellness attraction without fiscal hardship,” helium said.

Dr Bampoe said the emergence volition lone instrumentality effect aft support by the NHIA committee and the Minister of Health.

He added that the purpose is to support wellness services successful a mode that protects patients from out-of-pocket payments.