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How new medical scheme hopes to evade fraudulent claims

Dr. Daniel Mwai, president's advisor on health financing, at Spice FM on July 3, 2024. [Spice FM]

The process of phasing out the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) is on course after registration of the new Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) kicked off on Monday, July 1.

The latter years of NHIF's close to six decades of existence have seen the loss of billions of taxpayer money, due to unverified claims made by hospitals seeking reimbursement for services provided to patients covered by the scheme.

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