Dr. Philip A. Bannor, MD, is appointed by the President of Ghana as the Registrar of the Health Facilities Regulatory Agency, HeFRA. The Agency is mandated to register, inspect, license, and perform accreditation for nearly fifteen thousand health facilities nationwide. Dr. Bannor is an Internal Medicine Medicine Specialist.
Dr. Bannor is a practicing Internal Medicine since 2001. He graduated from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1997. Dr. Bannor became Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, ABIM, in 2002. Dr. Bannor, until his appointment to HeFRA, was the Regional Director of the National Health Insurance Authority-Eastern Region, overseeing the entire operation of the NHIA with 2 million insured lives. Dr. Bannor was appointed as Head of eClaims (Electronic Claims) at the NHIA. The eClaims Unit processes claims for the tertiary, regional, and many private and public primary and district hospitals, medical centers, and diagnostic centers, receiving and processing over 6 million claims and settling over Ghc 240 million ($US 40 million) liabilities annually. Under his tenure at the NHIA, he transformed the e-Claims Unit from processing just 5000 claims per day to 50,000 per day.
Additionally, Dr. Bannor was appointed by the Chief Executive Officer of NHIA to Chair the Stale Claims Review Committee, which is charged with receiving all complaints and issues pertaining to claims submissions, processing, and payments. Dr. Bannor represented NHA/Claims on an interdisciplinary committee involving the World Bank, Ghana Health Service, and the Government of Ghana to streamline NHIA payments to the primary health care providers to achieve the President’s Free SDG initiative Universal Health Coverage. The interdisciplinary effort distributed free enhanced software, CLAIM-IT 2.0 /CASP, to all private and public facilities, including CHAG and other faith-based institutions.
At the Health Facilities Regulatory Agency, Dr. Bannor has successfully led the drafting and adoption of forty different assessment standards for various categories of healthcare facilities. He recently completed the digitization of the assessment standards. Under his leadership, HeFRA has completed the Mobile Online Information system, MOIS, to guide the registration and license of facilities. The Agency has embarked on drafting accreditation standards for healthcare facilities in Ghana.
