Tricks used by hospitals to con billions from NHIF

NHIF headquarters in Nairobi. Some 80 health facilities could be suspended if an ongoing investigation reveals their involvement in possible fraud against NHIF. [File, Standard]

Use of tough medical terms for simple procedures like cleaning a cut wound is one of the schemes that hospitals are using to swindle the state health insurer.

National Hospital Insurance Fund(NHIF) has revealed that some hospitals go to an extent of admitting their own staff who are under NHIF just to make that extra cash.