Sentence examples for premium exemption from inspiring English sources

These two data sets contained information on unique NHIS member identification (ID) number, name of subscriber, date of birth, sex, scheme code, community code, community name, phone number, first enrolment date, enrolment end date, premium exemption category, dates of healthcare service usage, total cost per healthcare usage and utilized services claims date.

Nine specific maternal fee exemption policies were identified along the pathway, as the policies evolved from user fee exemption to national health insurance premium exemption.

However, PWR can provide valuable qualitative input to enrich discussions, development and implementation of policies, programs and tools for large scale interventions and targeting of the poor for social welfare programs such as premium exemption for health care.

Although every Ghanaian contributes to the NHIS through the NHI levy, those households outside the formal sector who are not able to pay the annual insurance premium and who are not granted a premium exemption do not have the opportunity of benefiting from the NHI levy and other government revenue channelled to the NHIS.

It is further in line with the conclusion by Rajkotia & Frick [32] that the design of the NHIS to offer premium exemptions to children, the aged 70+ years, pregnant women and vulnerable groups such as indigents and LEAP beneficiaries in a way has largely contained but not eliminated adverse selection.

It is in this light that the study set out to identify and compare various strategies to identify the indigent for premium exemptions.

Some projects also aimed at assessing the feasibility and efficiency of the strategies used in identifying the poor for premium exemptions under the NHIS.

The requirement of paying a premium for enrolment denies those outside the formal sector who cannot afford these payments and cannot secure premium exemptions access to health care and benefits from the NHI levy and other tax subsidies to the NHIS.

In a previous paper, we have analyzed the issues around identifying the poor for premium exemptions from a more quantitative perspective by comparing estimates of the effectiveness and efficiency of means testing (MT), proxy means testing (PMT), participatory wealth ranking (PWR) and geographic targeting (GT), in communities with different socio economic characteristics[ 17].

In this study we explored community indicators of poverty, and the implications and potential usefulness of using PWR to identify the poor for premium exemptions as compared to quantitative measures in the context of Ghana, a lower middle income country in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2009, we explored these social and relativist dimension of poverty in five communities in the South of Ghana with differing socio economic characteristics to inform the development and implementation of policies and programs to identify and target the poor for premium exemptions under Ghana's National Health Insurance Scheme.