The Colombian Association of Scientific Societies (ACSC) delivered a balance on the development of the work tables of the Capitation Payment Unit (UPC) convened by the Minsalud. According to the guild, The orders taught by the Constitutional Court regarding the consc. of guidelines and the readjustment of the UPC by 2024 were not fulfilled.
The Court had ordered, through the monitoring room of Judgment T-460 of 2008 and by means defining percentages, payment dates and a methodology that could also be applied to future validity.
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“After the tables neither of these two tasks was achieved, clearly no agreements of any order were given and the readjustment of the UPC 2024 was established.”, Said ACSC in a statement.
The guild questioned that the Ministry, instead of realizing agreements, would limit itself to collecting the observations of the participants in order to prepare a readjustment proposal alone. “The Ministry made a repository of proposals and observations on which, alone, will make a readjustment proposal, according to the portfolio, hosting all the participations”, Warned the association.
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The guild warned that the Ministry of Health prepares a readjustment proposal, without consultation with the system actors.
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According to the ACSC, this initial breach prevents progress in other orders from the Court, such as joint elaboration with the Ministry of Finance and the administrator of the resources of the General System of Social Security in Health (ADRES) of a Proposal to materialize commitments, or the definition of a concerted methodology applicable from 2025 onwards.
The guild stressed that in the development of the tables, multiple technical proposals were presented by different actors in the sector, aimed at overcoming the historical lack of information and data that have made it difficult to fix the value of the UPC. “This gives rise to the construction of a methodology not only applicable to 2024 but replicable in the future”, Explained the association, which expects the Ministry to take these contributions into account.
ACSC expressed concern that the health portfolio ends up imposing a figure for the UPC readjustment of 2024 without a prior consensus and using an unknown methodology. “We hope that the Ministry will take these contributions into account and will not impose its conclusions and eventually also impose a figure for the adjustment of the UPC of 2024 with an unknown methodology,” said the organization.
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ACSC said that an eventual breach could lead to disciplinary or criminal conforms and investigations against the Ministry.
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Although he acknowledged the effort of the Ministry to advance in compliance with the judicial orders, the ACSC insisted that the work done does not respond to the provisions of the Constitutional Court. “This work does not sympathize with what is ordered in car 007 of 2025; Therefore, we exhort the ministry to comply with the ordered, looking for the consensus that are required and that the construct is prepared by all those summoned and not by a single actor”Said the president of the guild, Agamemnon Quintero.
The association warned that if orders were not fulfilled, The Ministry could be exposed to a formal statement of non -compliance, with the possibility of incurring contempt and facing disciplinary or criminal investigations. “Thus avoiding the formal declaration of breach that can lead to being incurred or at the beginning of much more serious investigations,” Quintero added.
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Diana K. Rodríguez T.
Portfolio journalist
