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GHANA
Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme Fee Exemptions
Programme
Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme Fee Exemptions
Country
Ghana
Geographic area
Sub-Saharan Africa
Previous programme name (if any)
Start date 2003 1
Programme objectives To improve the population’s access to affordable health care services. 1
Programme type
Non-contributory health care (for indigents)
Programme components
Conditionalities (if any)
Targeting methods
Means test
Target areas
Nationwide
Target groups
Extremely poor people; pregnant women
Eligibility criteria
To be considered indigent and exempt from payment of a premium,
beneficiaries must have no source of income or fixed place of residence,
nor live or depend on a person who is employed and has a fixed
place of residence. Other groups who benefit from exemption of
all fees are pregnant women and beneficiaries of Livelihood
Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP). 2,3
Eligibility reassessment (if any)
Type of benefits
Health care benefits
Amount of benefits
Payment/delivery frequency
Benefit delivery mechanism
Benefit recipients
Indigent people, pregnant women and LEAP beneficiaries.
Minimum and maximum
duration of benefits (if any)
Coverage 6.7 million people benefit from the fee exemptions 3
Programme expenditures GHS2.5 million in 2014 4
Institutions and agencies involved National Health Insurance Authority
Monitoring and evaluation
mechanisms and frequency
See the references on page 170: Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme Fee Exemptions
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