Community Health Insurance (CHI) schemes pool members' health and financial risks to provide access to quality healthcare services. CHI is implemented through Community Health Insurance Schemes (CHIS) which are non-profit organizations that enroll community members and collect premiums to pay for their healthcare. Save for Health Uganda (SHU) operates 50 CHIS across several districts that insure about 150,000 people. The schemes educate communities about insurance, collect premiums, contract healthcare providers, and pay for members' care. CHI is seen as a model for Uganda's proposed National Health Insurance Scheme by providing coverage to informal workers not reached by employer-provided insurance.
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* Information & Communication Technology in Healthcare
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San Lazaro Compound, Sta. Cruz, Manila 1003
Telefax: 632-7116736
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general health insurance policies. In this paper, we discuss health
insurance schemes that have been started for these people. We
also discuss the challenges these schemes have. We also suggest
the steps that can be taken to improve the penetration and
effectiveness of these schemes for the better health management
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Views on the proposed National Health Insurance Scheme for Uganda
1. Community Health Insurance
(CHI) is a shared means for
providing financial protection
against the cost of illness
and improving access to
quality health care services. A
Community Health Insurance
Scheme (CHIS) is the
management arrangement
through which CHI can be
provided to members of a
specific community by pooling
health risks, financial risks and
financial resources together. In
an interview with Gilbert Kidimu,
Frederick Makaire, the executive
director Save for Health Uganda,
talked about the innovative
insurance scheme
Q
What prompted
you to come
up with the
community
insurance
scheme?
With the exception
of a few people in formal employment
who have some financial protection
such as employer-provided medical
insurance, many of those in the
non-formal employment sector have
limited or no financial protection,
resulting from the extensive reliance
on out-of-pocket payments each
time they seek health care services.
Making people to pay for health care
Community Health Insurance (CHI) Schemes have been promoted and implemented in Uganda
since 1996. They are health and financial risk management mechanisms for members of a
defined community who agree to pool their health risks and financial resources together. The
CHI schemes are characterized by: solidarity among members; voluntary enrolment; active
participation of members in the management of the schemes; and not being for profit. Today, the
CHI schemes are spread in the Districts of Luwero, Nakaseke, Nakasongola, Mubende, Masaka,
Bushenyi, Sheema, Mitooma, Buhweju, Kanungu, Rukungiri, Kisoro, and Kabaale, and provide
medical insurance to about 150,000 people.
Making a decision to utilizing quality health care services is much harder for the rural informal
sector families whom the CHI schemes mainly target. It is not an easy decision to make because
it depends largely on the availability and sufficiency of cash in the house to cover all the costs
associated with accessing health care services including: transport, treatment costs, meals, etc.
So, because of this cash requirement, a significant number of families are deterred from using
services since they have to pay for them on the spot, or if they utilize the services and pay, some
suffer financial hardships. Trying to minimize the challenges above is the reason CHI schemes
have been promoted and continue to exist in Uganda today.
According to the EAC social protection report of August 2014, Uganda despite implementing
a free health care policy in all Government health facilities presents a population with highest
private spending on health at 49% compared to Burundi’s 40%, Kenya’s, 37%, Rwanda’s 11%,
Tanzania’s 31% among the East African Countries. Since 2006, Uganda through the MoH has
been designing a National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) for all residents as one of the health
financing reforms to ensure adequate funds for health are raised so that residents can use the
needed health care services and remain protected from financial catastrophe or impoverishment
associated with having to pay for these services. According to the latest NHIS draft bill of 2014,
it will be mandatory for every resident to belong to the NHIS. Enrollment into the NHIS shall
be through one of the three sub schemes that have been defined to be: 1) The social health
insurance scheme (SHIS) for the formal sector workers, pensioners and the indigents; 2) the
community health insurance scheme (CHIS) for the self-employed and others in the informal
sector; and 3) the private commercial health insurance scheme (PCHIS) for both formal and
informal sector workers and families. If some clauses in the current NHIS draft bill of 2014 are
amended so that the bill provides for NHIS as illustrated in the figure, then the law will target
all Ugandan residents and, Universal Health Insurance Coverage will be reached. The CHI
fraternity and several other stakeholders find the NHIS as illustrated appropriate for a Ugandan
model, especially because in Kenya and Tanzania where the NHIS started by focusing on civil
servants and other formal sector workers, it is still not possible for these countries to bring the
informal sector and the poor onboard despite running the national schemes for over 40 years
now. Rwanda which targeted the entire population from the start has reached over 95% health
insurance coverage in just 10 years.
The CHI sub scheme of the NHIS as per our illustration will enroll self-employed and other
informal sector families to join the NHIS through which every Ugandan resident will access the
basic health care benefit package. CHI schemes will also manage other funds to cover services
or costs not covered by the NHIS and other health care related expenses that limit access to
services such as transport and meals during admissions.
Will the CHI sub scheme handle its roles in the NHIS efficiently? The example of the Save
for Health Uganda (SHU) CHI schemes in Luwero, Nakaske and Nakasongola Districts show
what roles the CHI schemes currently perform and how they perform them. In this example, it is
important to note that a CHI scheme operates at an administrative unit of a parish. The current 50
CHI schemes formed a network based in Luwero town.
Share/ separation of roles
CHI Scheme
members
CHI Scheme-level
(parish) managers
District/ regional
CHI Schemes-level
(network) managers
External SHU
technical support
1.To promote
the scheme
and enroll
members
1.To collect
premiums from
members who
wish to be covered
under medical
insurance
2.To transfer
collected premiums
and bio data of
paid families to the
network
3.To manage
beneficiaries’
concerns
1.To provide health
insurance education to
the target population
2.To pool the premiums
and manage all
scheme funds
3.To process and issue
access ID cards to
medical insurance
beneficiaries
4.To evaluate
performance and
contract health care
service providers
5.To monitor the
implementation of the
service contracts
6.To purchase health
care services from
contracted health care
providers
7.To report progress to
key stakeholders
8.To comply with the
legal and regulatory
requirements of the
scheme
1.To provide
health education
to the target
population
2.To research
and assist
developing
appropriate
health insurance
products
3.To determine
premium
payment
capacities and
mobilize for
subsidies
4.To accredit
health care
service
providers
5.To set
standards and
develop
management
tools for the
scheme
6.Train scheme
managers
Most of the roles that CHI schemes perform are similar to those anticipated to be roles that the
NHIS will play. The CHI schemes will find it easy to perform most grass-root level roles for the
NHIS especially funds collection, bio data collection, and management of members’ concerns.
The CHI Schemes promoters like the Uganda Community Based Health Financing Association
(UCBHFA), Save for Health Uganda (SHU) and others could partner with the NHIS to conduct
health insurance education, form new CHI schemes, coordinate the individual CHI schemes, help
link the individual CHI schemes to the NHIS at the district or region, and support the schemes to
provide voluntary health insurance for the supplementary package of benefits.
Community Health Insurance in Uganda and its role in the country’s efforts to reach Universal Health
Insurance Coverage
Save for Health Uganda (SHU) Plot 580, Sekabaka Kintu Road, Rubaga, Wakaliga, Kampala P.O. Box 8228, Kampala-Uganda Tel: +256414 271841 (general), +256 414 271 657 (direct), Cell: +256 772 515466 Fax: +256414 271841 E-mail: shu@shu.org.ug
SAVE FOR HEALTH UGANDA
Community solidarity for quality health
Makaire Fredrick,
Executive Director
services at the point of providing
the service has not only discouraged
people from using the services, but
also led to postponement of seeking
medical treatment. In some cases,
people are forced to sell off family
assets and other valuables in order to
pay for medical treatment.
Health insurance for communities
A field officer conducting an education session on insurance in
Kasaana, Sheema district. Photo by Gilbert Kidimu
saveforhealthugANDA
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Most people in Uganda live
below two dollars a day. What
makes this model of health
insurance feasible?
Community health insurance is
feasible because it works for people
in a defined community who share a
lot in common, including exposure to
health risks and who agree to pool
their meagre resources together to
help meet the cost of medical care for
those who need it during a specified
period. Secondly, community health
insurance uses local health care
service providers. Because this model
focuses on a community, it benefit
from large numbers.
How does CHI work?
CHI works through a community
health insurance scheme that is
formally established with a clear
mandate from the members to
provide health insurance to them.
Once formed, the scheme mobilises
the members, educates them about
health insurance, collects premiums
from the members, contracts health
care providers, issues identification
ID cards to the paid up members to
utilise services from the contracted
providers, monitors the utilisation
of services, and pays the service
providers.
When the insurance cover period
expires, the scheme collects new
premiums from the members again
to cover them for the next period.
It is important to note that unlike
with commercial health insurance,
community health insurance does
not involve total transfer of risks to an
external insurer. It covers members’
risks for as long as the pooled fund
remains liquid.
What are the steps required for
one to get insured?
The first step is live or work in a
community that runs a community
health insurance scheme. The
interested family then pays a
membership fee and becomes a
member of the scheme.
When a member, the family pays an
annual health insurance premium for
each of the members in their family.
The last step is for the family to
receive identification cards to enable
them be covered by the scheme
should they need services from the
health care facility or facilities that the
scheme has contracted.
What do you want to see
achieved through this
initiative?
First, we want every Ugandan
resident to have access to any health
care facility and service regardless of
their socio-economic status. Without
requiring cash in order to utilize
health care services at any health care
facility, access becomes possible and
equitable for all.
Secondly, we want to demonstrate
to the policy makers that health
insurance is a viable health care
financing alternative to out-of-pocket
payments not only for low income
earners but for all Ugandans.