NHIS enrolls additional 2 million people

The Executive Secretary of the Scheme, Dr. Femi Thomas who made this known revealed that there has been a movement in the Scheme’s enrolee data base from 5.5million to about 7.5million within the last nine months.He made the revelation at a mid-term Management Retreat of the Organisation which took place recently in  Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti […]

The Executive Secretary of the Scheme, Dr. Femi Thomas who made this known revealed that there has been a movement in the Scheme’s enrolee data base from 5.5million to about 7.5million within the last nine months.
He made the revelation at a mid-term Management Retreat of the Organisation which took place recently in  Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.
According to the NHIS boss; “Between 2011 and 2013, only about 600,000 lives were added to the scheme’s data base, while this year alone the number has grown by about two million.”
“This is by no means a small achievement, and we therefore congratulate everyone that has played a part in this major leap”, he said.
Thomas added that the recent engagement of a reputable international agency, Pricewaterhouse Copper (PwC), for an evaluation of the level of compliance of Health Maintenance Organisations (HMOs) with the standards set for the effective and unfailing delivery of quality services under the Scheme.
Dr Thomas recalled that all the HMOs were given six months to remedy their lapses following revelations from the exercise, with a grace period of another month which ended on the last day of August 2014.
He stressed that as strategic intermediaries in the health insurance business, all HMOs are expected to be alive to their responsibilities at all times, by providing effective management of the relationship between the scheme, the healthcare facilities and enrolees, rather than function only as fund disbursement agencies.