Collection of health insurance fees from expats in Kuwait dips – ARAB TIMES – KUWAIT NEWS – Arab Times Kuwait News

Collection of health insurance fees from expats in Kuwait dips – ARAB TIMES – KUWAIT NEWS – Arab Times Kuwait News

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KUWAIT CITY, Feb 1: While health insurance revenues for expatriates recorded the second highest collection rate in the history of the Ministry during the previous fiscal year, health sources said the rate of collection of money due to the Ministry of Health from some government agencies, related to health insurance fees for expatriate workers, continued to be low or nonexistent, reports Al-Rai daily. The sources pointed out that the balance of the account of the amounts due to the Ministry for the value of health insurance fees with government agencies has ballooned to more than 15 million dinars during the previous fiscal year, without effective follow-up from the Ministry to urge those authorities to pay.

In contrast to the low collection of the insurance value from government agencies, the health insurance revenues collected from expatriates during the previous fiscal year were the second highest revenues in the history of the ministry at a value of 1.2 million dinars, after recording more than 107 million dinars in the fiscal year 2019-2020.

The figures showed that the Ministry of Health