The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr. Victor Asare Bampoe, has revealed that the Authority is prepared to roll out a 120 percent increase in service tariffs once it secures approval from the NHIA Board and the Minister of Health.
Dr. Bampoe explained that the proposed hike follows extensive technical work by a team of independent experts tasked with reviewing tariffs under Sections 33 and 34 of the National Health Insurance Act, which mandate annual revisions of both medicine and service tariffs.
“What we are thinking of is that we have done the work and we think that it should be 120 percent. We are proposing it. It was done by a group of experts,” he said on Channel One TV.
He noted that while the medicines tariff review has already been completed, the service tariff review—initiated in 2022—took longer due to its comprehensive scope. “There are two types of reviews that we need to do, but this was a really comprehensive one, so I think they could not finish on time and so it is now that they have finished,” he explained.
Dr. Bampoe emphasized that implementation now hinges solely on statutory approvals. “Now it has to go to the Board for them to look at it and give their view on it. It has to go to the Minister of Health to give his assent, and then we will implement it if they all think it is okay,” he stated.
