New NHIS Medicine List To Be Discussed

A one-day meeting to discuss concerns raised by service providers of the National Health Insurance Schemeover the new medicine list provided by the National Health Insurance Authority(NHIA) opened at Koforidua on Thursday.

The meeting, which was convene by the Ministry of Health, would
discuss the types of drugs to be prescribed at the various levels of
health care as prescribed in the new medicine list of the NHIA.

Briefing the media after the opening of the meeting, Mr Osei B.
Acheampong Director of Research and Development of the NHIA, said the
essence of the NHIA medicine list was to ensure improvement in the
quality of health care at various levels of the health care
administration.

Mr Acheampong said there had been situations where the NHIA
had come across an issue where drugs which were expected to be
prescribed at tertiary level of care being prescribed at primary
levels of care.
He said such situations crated problems in the refund of medical
bills sent to the NHIA by the service providers.