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national health insurance

May 23, 2025

BVIHSA strategic plan coming next month

About 40 healthcare stakeholders gathered last Thursday to provide feedback for an upcoming strategic plan designed to inform the operations of the BVI Health Services Authority for the next five …

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by Allison Vaughn
October 28, 2024

In five years, NHI paid five providers $90m

On Friday in the House of Assembly, Health and Social Development Minister Vincent Wheatley disclosed the amounts the National Health Insurance programme paid to the top five local healthcare providers …

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by Allison Vaughn
March 20, 2024

Minister promises cancer registry

After years of requests for a cancer registry, Health and Social Development Minister Vincent Wheatley explained his plan to fight rising cancer rates in the territory in a March 5 …

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by Rushton Skinner
September 8, 2023

At least 188 Virgin Islands residents have dementia

The National Health Insurance database shows that at least 188 people with dementia live in the Virgin Islands, the VI Alzheimer’s Association announced this week as World Alzheimer’s Month activities …

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by The BVI Beacon
October 6, 2020

EDITORIAL: Government should prosecute employers who steal workers’ SS and NHI

It is extremely disheartening that many Virgin Islands employers have been stealing from their employees by keeping their contributions to the Social Security and the National Health Insurance programmes. Some …

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by BVI Beacon
July 23, 2020

Labour relaxes new work-permit rules

On July 10, Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration Minister Vincent Wheatley announced the immediate implementation of extra steps for businesses renewing work permits. This week, he walked back that plan …

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by Dana Kampa
July 17, 2020

NHI owes providers $4 million

The $7.5 million in Covid-19 relief funding earmarked to pay medical providers for their services rendered through the National Health Insurance system only went so far, and nearly $4 million …

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by Dana Kampa
July 14, 2020

Bill makes space for alternative medicine

While debating a bill that would update oversight for the practice of medicine, dentistry and alternative care in the territory, members of the House of Assembly also took a broader …

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by Dana Kampa
October 25, 2019

Financial stability of NHI at risk, review finds

Virgin Islands residents could soon have to up their National Health Insurance contributions by more than 25 percent if their payments are to fund the programme’s deficit, which is projected …

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by GENEVIEVE GLATSKY

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