COVERED SERVICES
The scope of services covered by HyPriority Plan includes:
A. OUT-PATIENT AND SPECIALIST CONSULTATIONS
- Registration
- Consultation with General practice doctors
- Consultations with Specialists on referral by a general practitioner
- Non-Specialist and Specialist diagnosis of medical and surgical
conditions
- Accident & Emergency room services:
Patient is stabilised in the event of life threatening emergencies before definitive care
- Supply of prescribed drugs and medications
- Routine Immunisations. All immunisations listed as follows are covered:
- BCG, Measles, DPT, Oral Polio, Vitamin A supplementation
Laboratory Tests, these will include:
1. Hematology
2. Clinical Chemistry
3. Serology
4. Microbiology
5. Histopathology
Other Diagnostic Services, these will include:
- Electrocardiography (ECG) – resting
B. IN PATIENT CARE (FOR COVERED MEDICAL AND SURGICAL CONDITIONS ONLY)
- Admissions and accommodation in a general ward
- Feeding for enrollees on admission
- Skilled nursing and medical services
- Supply of prescribed drugs, dressings, medical and surgical consumables
- Blood transfusion services
C. RADIOLOGICAL, LABORATORY & DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES
These services will be carried out and offered based on the clinician’s judgment:
Radiological Services include:
- Plain and contrast x-rays of all parts of the body
- Abdominal and pelvic ultrasound scans
D. PHYSIOTHERAPY AND PHYSICAL REHABILITATION SERVICES
These will include:
- Basic Physical Therapy including infra red therapy, TENS stimulation
- Supply of basic physiotherapeutic appliances i.e. Cervical collar, Lumbar corset, Crutches
E. MINOR SURGERIES & PROCEDURES
These include:
- Wound dressing
- Incision & drainage of abscesses
- Suturing of minor cuts and lacerations
- Excision
F. INTERMEDIATE SURGERIES & PROCEDURE
These include:
- Excision of various lumps
- Repair of hernia
- Appendicectomy
- Closed reduction and manipulation of simple fractures
- Ear, nose and throat procedures such as antral washout; antrostomy
and tonsillectomy
G. ANTENATAL CARE & DELIVERY (Up to N80 000 P.A.)
1. Antenatal services, examinations and supply of drugs
2. Delivery room services which include:
- Management of labour
- Normal & assisted delivery (vacuum delivery, forceps delivery etc)
- Caesarean section delivery
- Cervical cerclage (shirodkar procedure)
3. Post-natal check
H. NEONATAL SERVICES
Care required by a new born in the first month of life. This includes:
- Male circumcision
- Ear piercing
- Treatment of mild or moderate neonatal sepsis not requiring admission
- Phototherapy
I. DENTAL CARE
- Routine dental check
- Scaling and polishing (annual)
- Amalgam or composite filling for dental caries
- Simple (non-surgical) extraction of teeth
J. EYE GLASSES or CONTACT LENSES (up to N7 500 P.A.)
- Refraction
- Supply of frames and lenses (unifocal, bifocal, varifocal) replaceable once every two years
- Contact lenses (soft lenses replaceable twice a year)
- Treatment of acute and chronic eye diseases
K. HIV/AIDS CARE AND TREATMENT
- HIV screening
- Confirmatory tests
- Treatment with anti-retroviral drugs when required
- Treatment of opportunistic infections
EXCLUSIONS
The following are excluded from the HyPriority Plan:
- Overseas treatment and transplant surgery
- Plastic/cosmetic surgeries
- Major and complex surgeries and procedures
- Intensive care services
- Cancer care
- Ambulance services
- Investigation and treatment for problems relating to fertility e.g.
- hormone profiles, laparoscopy, hydrotubation, hysterosalpingogram IVF, GIFT, artificial insemination; and virility enhancing drugs
- Herbal drugs, non-prescription drugs/food supplements, experimental drugs and treatment
- Dental care not listed under services
- Home care, domiciliary care and ambulance services
- Embalmment & autopsies
- Joint replacements and prosthetic limbs
- Long term psychiatric illness (exceeding 6 months)
- Comprehensive health screening/well-person check
- Treatment for newborns not registered on the plan within 4 weeks of birth
- Self-inflicted injuries
- Congenital abnormalities
- Incubator care
- Special baby unit care
- Advance and complex investigations (CT scan, MRI scan, echocardiography, electroencephalography, doppler scans)
- Neonatal care not listed under neonatal services