MoH denies claims of hospital list removal from SHA website
In a statement released on Tuesday, August 26, 2025, the State Department for Medical Services and the SHA said the reports were false and misleading.
The government has dismissed online claims that the Social Health Authority (SHA) secretly removed a list of hospitals from its website.
In a statement released on Tuesday, August 26, 2025, the State Department for Medical Services and the SHA said the reports were false and misleading.
According to the statement, all records of health facilities paid under the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) are still available to the public and can be accessed on the authority’s official website.
SHA assured Kenyans that it had not tampered with any information and emphasised that transparency remains at the core of its operations.
"The Social Health Authority has not removed any hospital list from its website. The list can be found at https://sha.go.ke/resources/categories/11. SHA is committed to keeping Kenyans informed and will continue to provide timely updates," the Social Health Authority said in a statement on X.
This clarification comes at a time when concerns are growing over misuse of the new health insurance system.
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale, speaking a day earlier at Afya House in Nairobi, revealed shocking details of how some hospitals have devised elaborate fraud schemes to siphon billions of shillings meant for patient care under the TaifaCare programme.
Duale explained that an audit uncovered several tricks being used by dishonest facilities. One of the most common is upcoding, where hospitals bill the authority for more expensive procedures or serious conditions than what was actually treated.
This inflates claims and drains public funds. Another scheme involves falsifying medical records with facilities altering or fabricating documents to justify higher payments.
Hospitals have also been caught converting simple outpatient visits into inpatient admissions to claim larger reimbursements. Even more troubling is phantom billing, where hospitals submit claims for procedures or equipment that were never provided at all.
The CS highlighted specific cases to show the scale of the fraud. At Nabuala Hospital in Bungoma, auditors found repeated claims of multiple Caesarean sections on the same patient.
Kotiende Medical Centre in Homa Bay allegedly produced clinical records that appeared to be signed by the same staff member for both day and night shifts across several days.
In Nairobi, Vebeneza Medical Centre was accused of turning ordinary outpatient visits into suspicious inpatient admissions. Meanwhile, Jambo Jipya Hospital in Mtwapa was flagged for billing Caesarean deliveries that turned out to be normal births.
“Our work has just begun,” Duale said, assuring the public that the government will not allow fraudsters to undermine Kenyans’ right to quality healthcare.
