NHIF building.Photo/softkenya.com
Private sector and informal workers are set to start accessing outpatient medical services at top private health facilities.
NHIF will cater for facilities such as Aga Khan, Mater and Nairobi Hospital.
The National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) is in discussion with the premium hospitals to roll out a co-payment scheme for the insurer to pay a portion of the bills with the remainder footed by private sector employees.
The plan seeks to end delays that have lasted since 2015 when the fund introduced outpatient cover.
But the top private hospitals opted out of the outpatient deal, denying NHIF’S 6.1 million members premium services associated with these facilities.
The hospitals rejected the Sh1,200 cash allocation that the NHIF offered for each member and their family to access out-patient services for a year, saying it is too little.