https://www.standardmedi...s-under-new-sh15b-cover

have heard various complaints on this scheme.you go to hospital they send you to a clinic called bliss at GPO.you find young chaps who seems not to know what they are doing. then the wait for drugs takes weeks if not months. I see mention of clinix somewhere and then I see a scandal

http://blissgvshealthcare.com/our_clinics.html
this reads like a conduit for making a kill from teachers money

similar to this

https://www.standardmedi...l-hospital-for-its-woes

http://scandalsexposed.weebly.com

http://www.nation.co.ke/...224798-qqxhnd/index.html

There's no consumer protection in Kenya. If you knew the things Chinese dump in Kenya other than what you already know you'd be disgusted. Sadly, the fake items dumped in Kenya are imported by Kenyans in the name of business, from fake manufactured food stuff to fake batteries etc. The Kenyan consumer is an exploited idiot and our governments have never shown concern.

I think you are using very strong terms, I don't think we are idiots as consumers, con artists exist everywhere in the world not just kenya. Also remmber not everyone earns 200k plus as you do, and as such at times hakuna option, but to go for what you call fake.
Remember there are con artists, and people have different incomes.

Mlifikiria madaktari were on strike for nothing. Sasa ndio tutajuta sisi wote. Nilisema NHIF scheme is a scam. No excuse to put public money into private pockets when there are public hospitals that can do the same job. As we speak hospitals are over quoting for procedures and middlemen are pocketing their cut.

I want to vouch for nhif and say that maybe what we need is to streamline the procedures and seal loopholes.

My grandma has Cancer of the Oesophagus that was diagnosed in early 2016.We had a stent fitted and the total cost were about 150k.This year the problem resurfaced and we had to have a second stent and guess what all the costs were borne by nhif.At a mission hospital.

I enrolled my house help last year and when she fell ill this year she was treated using the card in a private health facility.I think that the private facilities supplement the public facilities.

Lets work on streamlining the system and ensure as many as possible enroll. The over quoting could be due to the delay it takes to process the payments causing facilities to borrow to sustain their operations.

Pole about your Cucu..Glad she is doing better.

When I said herding cats, I meant that it will be almost impossible to streamline the system with so many clinics/hospitals willing to scam people. If on the other hand NHIF funds were to support a single payer, it might be easier to streamline. Private hospitals are in this to make money. They are definitely not subsidizing public facilities.

Never heard of overbilling to compensate for late payments..

That bit is true, my mum told me the same goes on in Nakuru, and the queus are longer than in public hospitals

Not really.

I was once involved in the development of an Insurance/Medical cover for low income people.One of the things that we looked at was the health facilities to work with.This was to take care of quality as well as work as a control measure.It cannot be open to all facilities otherwise even the Mugo Wa Wairimus of this world would benefit.

The considerations were location,size pf facility,population size and there economic profile etc.

One notable observation was that once people especially the lower income get the cover they imagine its a ticket to spending.They would passby the hospitals after church on sunday like an outing to go for general check up.Others would go to the dentist and order for Sensodyne,mouthwash na kadhalika.

This called for the above measures.And which may explain why some agencies have been recruited as well as co-payment in some hospitals.