{"id":111098,"date":"2025-02-27T13:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T13:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/27\/private-hospitals-warn-of-crisis-over-unpaid-government-bills\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T13:03:30","slug":"private-hospitals-warn-of-crisis-over-unpaid-government-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/private-hospitals-warn-of-crisis-over-unpaid-government-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Hospitals Warn of Crisis Over Unpaid Government Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 27<\/strong> \u2013 The Rural and Urban Private Hospitals Association of Kenya (RUPHA) has warned that the government\u2019s failure to settle outstanding bills threatens the country\u2019s healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>RUPHA Chairman Brian Lishenga, speaking at the Hennet Health NGOs symposium in Nairobi, said negotiations with the government on clearing the debt have stalled, raising concerns over the sustainability of private health facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government insists there is no money, but unless healthcare is properly funded, service quality will deteriorate, and more hospitals will be forced to shut down,\u201d Lishenga said.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the government to establish a sustainable health financing model to prevent the crisis from escalating, noting that the outpatient reimbursement structure under the Social Health Authority (SHA) is overly complex and impractical.<\/p>\n<p>RUPHA also called for the expedited payment of claims owed to hospitals under Medical Administrators Kenya Limited, which manages medical schemes for police officers and teachers.<\/p>\n<p>The standoff between RUPHA and the government involves <strong>KSh 30 billion<\/strong> in unsettled claims.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health dismissed RUPHA\u2019s concerns, stating it will settle pending bills inherited from the defunct National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) only after completing an ongoing reconciliation process.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 27 \u2013 The Rural and Urban Private Hospitals Association of Kenya (RUPHA) has warned that the government\u2019s failure to settle outstanding bills threatens the country\u2019s healthcare system. RUPHA Chairman Brian Lishenga, speaking at the Hennet Health NGOs symposium in Nairobi, said negotiations with the government on clearing the debt have stalled, raising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}