Following the tensions between the Social Health Authority (SHA) and healthcare providers, which have crippled services across private facilities for a section of government employees seeking treatment, the authority has announced a raft of changes to address the claims, including the involvement of investigative agencies.
In a statement shared on Wednesday by State House Spokesperson Hussein Mohamed and State House Economic Council advisor Moses Kuria, SHA revealed that it had discovered some facilities were submitting claims that were not genuine.
In response to this, the authority announced that it had alerted investigative agencies to conduct an audit of the claims. ''Regarding the old debts owed to Facilities by the defunct NHIF, whereas some of the claims are genuine, it has come to the attention of the relevant authorities that some claims were pushed through as we came close to the transition to SHA in order to create liabilities,'' a statement from SHA read in part.
A collage of the NHIF offices and the Social Health Authority logo.
