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Peebles Hospital in Road Town, British Virgin Islands.. The National Health Insurance scheme (or NHI) is a form of national health insurance established by the Government of the British Virgin Islands through the Ministry of Health, with a goal to provide access to and financial coverage for health care services to British Virgin Islands residents. [1]
Peebles Hospital is the main public hospital in the British Virgin Islands. The hospital is located in the capital, Road Town, on the island of Tortola. It was founded in 1922 by Major H.W. Peebles, and was originally known as the Cottage Hospital. [1] [2]
The responsibility of operating the public health system is vested in a statutory body, the BVI Health Services Authority Board (BVI HSA). [3] Peebles Hospital and the various clinics managed by the BVI HSA. Public health care is effectively subsidised by pricing which is deliberately set below the actual cost of providing care. [4]
The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) is a major multi-hospital health system headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. UPHS and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania together comprise Penn Medicine , a clinical and research entity of the University of Pennsylvania .
Two years later, Lancaster General Health (LG Health) joined the UPHS family. [4] Princeton Health officially merged into UPHS in January 2018. [ 5 ] In 2020, the hospital accelerated the development of its new $1.5 billion "Pavilion" site in order to build additional capacity to combat the COVID-19 crisis.
The BVI Financial Services Commission is an autonomous regulatory authority responsible for the regulation, supervision and inspection of all the British Virgin Islands financial services including insurance, banking, trustee business, company management, mutual funds business, the registration of companies, limited partnerships and intellectual property.
A medical biller then takes the coded information, combined with the patient's insurance details, and forms a claim that is submitted to the payors. [2] Payors evaluate claims by verifying the patient's insurance details, medical necessity of the recommended medical management plan, and adherence to insurance policy guidelines. [4]
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