Posted on: Wed 02-02-2022

The National Health Insurance Scheme has resolved the dispute between the Health Care Providers Association of Nigeria, and Health Maintenance Organisations.

The NHIS Deputy General Manager, Mr. Emmanuel Ononokpono, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja, on Tuesday.

The News Agency of Nigeria, reports that hospitals, under the aegis of HCPAN and other associate bodies, had announced plans to drop HMOs and impose a new tariff structure for private health insurance.

Ononokpono said that the action was to commence from February 1, a development that created anxiety within the health insurance ecosystem.

The Executive Secretary, NHIS, Prof. Mohammed Sambo, in a meeting with the parties, reached an interim but mutual understanding, aimed at ensuring that a potential crisis was averted.

Similarly, it was to ensure that persons operating health insurance on a private basis were not stranded, Sambo had explained.

Private health insurance is a practice where HMOs buy health care for interested persons under pre-determined arrangements. Usually, it is outside the NHIS system, he said.

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