The Government has given the go ahead to the National Health Insurance Authority to grant increments of 25 percent on the average for various tariffs to Service Providers of the National Health Insurance Scheme across the country. This was announced by the Minister of Health on Tuesday, June 28, 2011, at this year’s NHIA Stakeholders’ forum held at the GIMPA. A release signed by the Minister of Health Yieleh Chireh stated that the increment in tariffs was for “inpatient care, primary outpatient care, diagnostics, and secondary and tertiary outpatient care”. The effective date for applying the increments, the release stressed, was July 1, 2011. The new rates the statement pointed out “will serve as a stop gap measure while the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) conducts tariff review”. Source:NHIA