{"id":198009,"date":"2025-05-13T12:25:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-court-suspends-nhif-pending-medical-claims-verification-committee\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T10:25:26","slug":"kenya-high-court-suspends-nhif-pending-medical-claims-verification-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-high-court-suspends-nhif-pending-medical-claims-verification-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: High Court Suspends NHIF Pending Medical Claims Verification Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The High Court has suspended operations of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) Pending Medical Claims Verification Committee that was to audit Sh33 billion claims pending the hearing of a suit against it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In a ruling issued by Justice Reuben Nyakundi, the court granted conservatory orders restraining the committee from compiling any reports, issuing recommendations, or undertaking any actions pursuant to the contested Gazette notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The orders will remain in force pending the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505130213.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 High Court has suspended operations of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) Pending Medical Claims Verification Committee that was to audit Sh33 billion claims pending the hearing of a suit against it. In a ruling issued by Justice Reuben Nyakundi, the court granted conservatory orders restraining the committee from compiling any reports, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":198010,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8117,5857,6185,6184,4688,430,7417,257,15974,8067,254,10452,9241],"class_list":["post-198009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-committee","tag-court","tag-high","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-nhif","tag-pending","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspends","tag-verification"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/198009","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=198009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}