Resource Type: Report
Published: August 2018

Resource Description: Rivers State government, as part of its’ responsibility to provide quality health care for the residents of the state, wants to create a Minimum Health Care package which provides a set of basic health care benefits to which residents can have unrestricted access. Abt Associates, as part of USAID’s Health Finance and Governance project has contracted Ernst & Young to actuarially cost the state health benefit package called Minimum Health Benefit Package (MHBP). The product is expected to be:
– Affordable
– High quality and
– Sustainable by government

This report gives appropriately estimated risk premium covering the medical cost under each benefit package for both individuals and households. MHCP considers six (6) scenarios under this health insurance program.