PLASCHEMA introduces EVAC System to boost efficiency, good services

The Plateau State Contributory Healthcare Management Agency ( PLASCHEMA), has introduced an Enrollee Verification, Accreditation and Claims Management System (EVAC), to boost the agency’s efficiency and provide good services to the people of the State.

The Acting Director General of PLASCHEMA, Dr Dawal Kwande while unveiling the EVAC system in Jos on Thursday during a workshop it held with the various healthcare facilities and Health Management Organisations (HMOs) said the EVAC System will be launched in July.

Kwande said the essence of the workshop was to intimate the various stakeholders involved in the administration of health care insurance, on the modalities and the operational guidelines of the system before its official launch.

According to him, the EVAC system when launched, will address the challenge of enrollees’ slow verification and authorisation by the HMOs, thereby boosting the agency’s efficiency.

” This system, which is the innovation of the agency, makes the enrollee’s verification and authorisation very easy and seamless.

This will mitigate the inefficiency of slow verification and authorisation. This, in turn, would enable the agency to deliver an efficient health management system,” he said.

He further said that the system also enabled the healthcare facilities to request their claims after rendering services.

Kwande said the agency began developing the system in December 2022 to ensure seamless service delivery in the state.

He described the state’s health agency as the biggest social safety net provided by the state government to eliminate out-of-pocket expenditures and to improve the health indices of the people.

He called on the public, who had not enrolled into the scheme, to do so as it also served as a means of financial protection for the enrollees.