The Health Ministry has pledged to ensure all outstanding remittances are settled before the end of the transition from the National Health Insurance Fund to the new Social Health Authority .
"As of May 31 2024 the Fund owed medical claims of Sh.20 Billion and Sh.9.3Billion to co-insurers. The outstanding premiums owed to the Fund were Sh.28 Billion. The Ministry of Health and the Authority have put in place measures to ensure the claims are settled before the end of the transition," stated CS Nakhumicha to the Senate Health Committee on the rollout of Universal Health Care .
She affirmed that the Ministry is pursuing debt owed by Ministries, Departments, and Agencies through the National Treasury, stating that the Board has reduced administrative expenditures and skewed payments to the settlement of claims. "Following the enactment of the SHA Act, 2023, a Transition Committee was gazetted on 26th January 2024. The Committee works with both the NHIF Board and SHA Board, and they developed a comprehensive work plan which included verification of assets and liabilities of NHIF," said Nakhumicha.