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How hospitals siphon billions of money from NHIF

Apart from Nairobi, hospitals in central, parts of Nyanza and Coast areas are notorious. [Courtesy]

Use of tough medical terms for simple procedures like cleaning a cut wound is one of the schemes that hospitals are using to swindle the state health insurer.

National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) has revealed that some hospitals go to an extent of admitting their own staff who are under NHIF just to make that extra cash.

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