The Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Dr. Victor Asare Bampoe, says the Authority is ready to implement a 120 percent increase in service tariffs as soon as it receives approval from the NHIA Board and the Minister for Health.

Dr. Bampoe explained that the proposed increase follows extensive technical work by a group of independent experts mandated to review tariffs under Sections 33 and 34 of the National Health Insurance Act, which require annual revisions of both medicines and service tariffs.

“What we are thinking of is that we have done the work and we think that it should be 120 percent. We are proposing. It was done by a group of experts,” he said on Channel One TV’s  The Point of View on Wednesday November 26.

He noted that while the medicines tariff review has already been completed, the service tariff review—initiated in 2022—took longer due to its comprehensive nature. “There are two types of reviews that we need to do, but this was a really comprehensive one, so I think they could not finish on time and so it is now that they have finished,” he explained.

Dr. Bampoe stressed that implementation now depends solely on statutory approvals. “Now it has to go to the Board for them to look at it and give their view on it. It has to go to the Minister of Health to give his assent, and then we will implement it if they all think it is okay,” he stated.