{"id":17242,"date":"2025-03-05T14:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17242"},"modified":"2025-03-05T14:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:35:16","slug":"health-ministry-to-finalize-means-testing-model-for-taifa-care-by-march-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=17242","title":{"rendered":"Health Ministry to Finalize Means Testing Model for Taifa Care by March 7."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"963\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Barasa-og_image.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Barasa-og_image.webp 963w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Barasa-og_image-480x314.webp 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 963px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Ministry of Health<\/strong> has announced plans to <strong>finalize the Means Testing Model (MTM) for Taifa Care<\/strong> by <strong>Friday, March 7<\/strong>, ensuring that <strong>vulnerable Kenyans<\/strong> receive the <strong>financial support needed<\/strong> to access healthcare services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This development follows <strong>growing concerns from healthcare professionals<\/strong>, who blame the <strong>sector&#8217;s struggles<\/strong> on the government&#8217;s <strong>rushed rollout<\/strong> of Taifa Care. They argue that <strong>critical elements<\/strong>\u2014including a <strong>proper means-testing instrument<\/strong> and <strong>premium financing mechanisms<\/strong>\u2014were <strong>not in place before implementation<\/strong>, leading to <strong>service denials<\/strong> in many hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address these challenges, the ministry is also <strong>developing a comprehensive guide<\/strong> to help <strong>both healthcare providers and citizens<\/strong> better understand and access <strong>Taifa Care services<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, in a <strong>move to enhance transparency and accountability<\/strong>, the ministry has revealed that <strong>starting next week, all payments made to health facilities by the Social Health Authority (SHA) will be publicly accessible<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health has announced plans to finalize the Means Testing Model (MTM) for Taifa Care by Friday, March 7, ensuring that vulnerable Kenyans receive the financial support needed to access healthcare services. This development follows growing concerns from healthcare professionals, who blame the sector&#8217;s struggles on the government&#8217;s rushed rollout of Taifa Care. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-health","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Barasa-og_image.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17244,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17242\/revisions\/17244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}