Since the announcement by the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) membership card merger with the Ghana Card, where both cards can be linked for full access to healthcare, the Scheme has recorded a surge in mobile renewal of its membership in the month of November.
Available data shows that the cumulative number of mobile renewals, from January 2019 to October 2020, stands at 11,762,277, with the number of renewals for the month of November 2020 alone, totaling 805,268. This represents a 17% increase over that of the preceding month, October 2020, which stood at 690,759.
Breakdown of Mobile Renewals by Membership Category
With a total of 387,671, representing 48.1 %, children under the age of 18 were captured as the membership category with the highest renewals via mobile phone using the short code *929# for the month of November 2020, followed by persons in the informal sector with 333,983 renewals, the aged (70 years and above) with 41,967, Social Security National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) contributors with 36,419 and SSNIT Pensioners with 5,228.
District Ranking
In order of district ranking, Ga, Techiman and Bantama recorded the top three highest number of mobile renewals with a total of 14,790, 14,152, 12,305 respectively. For regional performances, the Eastern, Central and Western North recorded the highest surge in the usage of the mobile renewal service respectively, with 39%, 31% and 29%, when compared to the figures of the month of October 2020.
NHIS Mobile Renewal Service
The NHIS Mobile Renewal Service is a fast, reliable and seamless digitised innovation designed for NHIS members to renew the validity of their membership via mobile phone.
The Mobile Renewal Service can be accessed by simply dialing *929# on any mobile money enabled mobile phone.
Not only does the service allow members to renew their membership, it provides access to the NHIS medicines list, benefit package, and also serves as the sole avenue to link the Ghana Card with the NHIS card.
The Service offers members the opportunity to provide feedback on their attendance to any NHIA credentialed service providers.
Source: NHIA
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