Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale has said that the government will clear all pending bills owed to health facilities under the defunct National Health Insurance Fund(NHIF) in the next two months.
These pending bills are outstanding payments owed by NHIF to healthcare facilities, including public, private, and faith-based facilities, for services rendered to its members before it went defunct. In a press briefing on Wednesday, September 3, Duale claimed that the repayment of the pending bills, which is under the directive of President William Ruto, will be made immediately after the National Treasury introduces a supplementary budget.
According to Duale, the first repayment of the bills, which amount to Ksh5.3 billion, will be made to hospitals that the government owes between Ksh1 to and Ksh10 million.
A collage of the NHIF offices and the Social Health Authority logo.
