The VII Commission of the House of Representatives A scheduled a political control debate to the National Health Superintendent, Giovanni Rubianoand the New EPS intervenerfollowing the complex financial situation that this health entity has gone through, which has the largest number of affiliates nationwide.
This assured it on its social networks Representative to the Chamber of the Democratic Center, Andrés Forerowho filed the petition in said legislative cell.
“We are not going to let Giovanni Rubiano continue without facing the Congress and Colombia for the Greatest EPS disaster in the country, intervened by the Government in April 2024“He mentioned.
(Besides: These are the reasons why the former director of Nueva EPS will go to trial).
According to the document shared in his trill, The debate will take place on September 24, at 9:00 in the morning.
Government’s accusations to the new EPS
The financial situation of the new EPS entered the center of the public debate after the Comptroller General of the Republicafter a judicial police operation carried out in July 2025, warned about serious irregularities in the entity. Preliminary analysis evidenced Problems in advance management, billing, hiring and technical reserves, which put the sustainability of an EPS at risk that covers 22% of affiliates to the health system.
The report revealed that Unpreheys without legalizing went from $ 3.4 billion in 2023 to $ 15.27 billion in the first half of 2025while unprocessed invoices total $ 13.2 billion after purifying duplicates. In addition, payments were found in a small group of providers and deficiencies in the contractual documentation, which generated alerts on a possible structural financial imbalance.
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Given these findings, the President Gustavo Petro He publicly responsible for the former director of the EPS for makeup the figures and hide liabilities. In a vehement presidential speech, he described the situation as a “Huge health robbery” and He talked about systematic fraud that would have diverted resources to contractors and political actors. In that context, he raised the need for all EPS to be controlled directly by the State.
The National Health Superintendencyon the other hand, he issued immediate orders to the new EPS to legalize payments and clarify advances that would actually correspond to services already provided. The entity must sign minutes with its providers throughout the country to eliminate the figure of the “false advance”And strengthen their information systems, in order to guarantee transparency in resource management and reduce delays in medical accounts.
(Further: Supersalud orders new EPS to legalize payments with providers).
The liquidation would not be the exit, according to experts
Despite the approach of President Petro to liquidate the entity, experts in the sector, such as his Minister of Health, Guillermo Alfonso JaramilloThey have indicated that this measure does not constitute an adequate solution.
“If we liquidate the new EPS, we would have to liquidate all the others, because they all have deficit”, The official told the ‘W Radio’, emphasizing that the problem is structural and not exclusive to a single entity.
(Also read: Possible liquidation of the new EPS would be a ‘smoke curtain’).
Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo, Minister of Health and Social Protection
Ministry of Health and Social Protection
In the same vein, different experts and sectors described the settlement proposal as a “smokescreen”They argue that the measure could deepen the system crisis, putting at risk the continuity of treatments and the care of chronic patients, in addition to overflowing other EPS that already face financial problems.
“Liquidating it may be an option, but it is really not adequate, because what would generate is a systemic crisis”He said Augusto Galán, director of Thus We are in health and former portfolio minister.
This coincided Jesús Albrey González, president of the Bar Association in Medical Lawwho assured Portafolio to liquidate the new EPS would be “disastrous“For health providers, because so far the”State has not been responsible for the debts of the liquidation”
Juan Martín Murillo Herrera
Portfolio journalist
