IHMS/NHIS Social Health Insurance Program

THE IHMS/NHIS SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM
The NHIS/IHMS Social Health Insurance Scheme is a public private sector partnership designed to employ the managerial tools of HMOs to ensure that all Nigerians have access to quality and affordable healthcare services.

The NHIS
The NHIS is a body corporate with perpetual succession established under Act 35, 1999, to provide social health insurance in Nigeria where health care services of contributors are paid from the common pool of funds contributed by the participants of the Scheme.

NHIS Mission

To facilitate fair-financing of healthcare costs through pooling and judicious utilization of financial resources to provide financial risk protections and cost-burden-sharing for people, against high cost of health care, through various prepayment(s) programs/products, prior to their falling ill..…in addition to providing regulatory oversight on HMOs and Health Care Providers.