The Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) again called on the administrative and financial state of the new EPS. The control body found that, with a cut to June 30, 2025the health service provider entity still has pending to legalize $ 15.3 billion.
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The finding occurs within the framework of the surveillance and control actions that the CGR has been advancing on the fulfillment of fiscal management in the operations of public resources by the different actors that make up the health system. In the specific case of the new EPS, it was carried out “A Judicial Police action” To obtain recent data, considering that this does not have the financial statements certified and ruling for validity 2023 and 2024.
What would you find control?
The control entity said that it found a series of irregularities regarding the absence of technical notes, the lack of documentary supports, omission in the definition of payment modalities and non -identification of target population.
According to the Comptroller, “These practices prevent verifying financial sufficiency, encourage contractual opacity and open the door to double payment risks, over -use services and diversion of public resources. ”
Regarding advances, the entity explained that it must be taken into account that a few years ago the EPS, like IPS, They had to benefit from the provisions of Decree 441 of 2022standard that regulates the agreements of wills between paying entities and health services providers, and that does not contemplate, among other things, turns through IPS EPS advances.
In that sense, it was found that “The new EPS recurrently turned into advances to IPS or health service providers with a commercial and/or contractual link during validity 2022 to 2025; advances that, in the case of contracts for the modality of” payment per event “should not have occurred, as for this type of contracts the turn must be subsequent to the provision of services.”
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New EPS has advances pending legalize $ 15.3 billion
As a result of the above, it was found that the entity did not carry out the audits required to medical accounts based by IPS that had received the money to provide their services to users. From there, the $ 15.3 billion pending legalization.
In addition, the CGR said that, if that process had been managed in a timely manner, resources not executed by the IPS had probably been found, which had to be recovered by the new EPS and reimbursed to the health system.
The Comptroller also stressed that The lack of audit to 13.7 million invoicesequivalent to $ 13.2 billion, “It allows to infer the alleged materialization of the risk of loss of state resources”, derived from the invoices that had to be firm and whose value had to be assumed by the new EPS.
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The Comptroller General of the Republic
To that list is added that They found inconsistencies Among the information derived from the Judicial Police collection versus the information that rests in the official sources of the State and reported by the new EPS in the Databases of the Comptroller in relation to the income components and the turns made by this entity to its network providing network and health technologies.
“The CGR has found significant limitations in relation to the quality and safety of the data, since it was evidence He highlighted the control entity.
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