{"id":176066,"date":"2024-07-07T06:48:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T04:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-health-ministry-to-settle-sh20bn-medical-claims-before-sha-adoption\/"},"modified":"2024-07-07T06:48:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T04:48:08","slug":"kenya-health-ministry-to-settle-sh20bn-medical-claims-before-sha-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-health-ministry-to-settle-sh20bn-medical-claims-before-sha-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Health Ministry to Settle Sh20bn Medical Claims Before Sha Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Health Ministry has pledged to ensure all outstanding remittances are settled before the end of the transition from the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) to the new Social Health Authority (SHA).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Health Cabinet Secretary Suzan Nakhumicha revealed the fund owed medical claims of Sh20 billion and Sh9.3 billion to co-insurers, while the outstanding premiums owed to the fund were Sh28 billion as of June 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"67\">&#8220;As of May 31 2024 the Fund owed medical claims of Sh.20 Billion and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050519.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Health Ministry has pledged to ensure all outstanding remittances are settled before the end of the transition from the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) to the new Social Health Authority (SHA). Health Cabinet Secretary Suzan Nakhumicha revealed the fund owed medical claims of Sh20 billion and Sh9.3 billion to co-insurers, while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[10359,258,256,8117,5731,4688,430,7417,6857,257,19185,33222,35677,254],"class_list":["post-176066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-adoption","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-health","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-medical","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-settle","tag-sh20bn","tag-sha","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}