The Attorney General’s Office requested at Ministry of Health and Social Protection comply with the orders and guidelines issued by the Constitutional Court regulating the increase in Capitation Payment Unit (UPC)which is the annual value that the State recognizes to Health Promoting Entities (EPS) for each of its affiliates.
According to the Public Ministry, in the last session of the work tables for the adjustment of the UPC, the Public Ministry made a “strict“Monitoring al Compliance with orders taught by the Constitutional Court for the financial sustainability of the health system.
(Further: Government concludes work tables ordered by the Constitutional Court on UPC).
Through the Judgment T-760the Constitutional Court declared the general insufficiency of the UPC by 2024, since it considered that it did not adequately cover the needs of the health services of the affiliates and also ordered the lag that is recorded since 2021, to cover the benefits included in the Mandatory Health Plan.
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The control body argued that decisions to correct this imbalance must start from the technical and participatory consensus of the members of the work tables, without ignoring the competence of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.
(You may be interested: Medication expenditure reached $ 29.6 billion in 2024, the highest figure four years).
Finally, the Delegate Attorney for Labor Affairs and Social Security He stressed that these decisions of the Constitutional Court “They are no longer subject to controversy“And they have a judged thing, he also requested strict compliance in the times and guidelines ordered by the high court.
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