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In the legal action, the lawyer Jaime Lombana maintains that Ulahy Beltrán has benefited some EPS and has acted contrary to the law against others.
4/4/2023
Lawyer Jaime Lombana took legal action against the Health Superintendent, Ulahy Beltrán. The reason was the presentation that the senior official made a few weeks ago of the debts that the EPS have with the hospitals and that he later had to rectify, as they turned out to be false. “The superintendent maintained that the debt at the head of the Colombian EPS amounted to 50 billion pesos. However, this had to be denied later because such a figure is 23.3 trillion pesos”, explained the jurist.
The figure of 50 billion was used in multiple public pronouncements by the president, the minister Carolina Corcho and the superintendent to establish the need to end the insurance role that the EPS have in the health system. Corcho’s thesis is that because of these high debts, the hospitals were going bankrupt.
In the end, the past On January 16, the superintendent issued a press release in which he maintained that the total debts of the liquidated EPS, in the process of liquidation, and active were effectively 23.3 trillion pesos, and not 50 billion pesos.
The lawyer adds that “this becomes more relevant when the Superintendency itself provided a data query tool that has this type of information, called Super Radar. So, it can be clearly seen that the intention was to generate anxiety and panic in the citizen, through falsehoods, in order to create a favorable environment for health reform”.
Since the figures were presented, they generated controversy. The amounts were illogical, since they represented almost the entire budget of the health system, which would make it inoperable. Faced with the avalanche of criticism from experts, the Superintendency had to rectify, but it did so through a simple statement. The minister, who had used the figures, never rectified. “The National Health Superintendency began a process of inspection and analysis of data, with special attention to the way in which the information was being processed, extending it to the amounts of credits of around 102 EPS liquidated between 2003 and 2015, and the exhaustive review of the figures that were presented to the country in good faith”, read the document of the Superintendency.
The document added that “finally, and as a consequence of the foregoing, the corresponding transfers were made to the Internal Control Office and the competent disciplinary authorities so that they can carry out the investigations that may arise and deem appropriate.”
Given this new pronouncement, the former Minister of Health, Fernando Ruiz, indicated on his Twitter account: “There they are painted. @Supersalud had to issue a statement clarifying what had been said. That the debts of the liquidated EPS are 1.7 trillion and 5 trillion in liquidation. Figures in recognition that may still decrease. @petrogustavo”, citing the press release from the Superintendence of Health.
The lawyer also filed a complaint for allegedly favoring institutions such as EPS SOS or CAPITAL SALUD EPS-S, while others such as Convida were liquidated. “The foundation will fall on the fact that these entities do not meet the requirements and financial indicators by which CONVIDA is liquidated, but the measures are lifted for them, favoring them,” says the lawyer.
The lawyer maintains that, additionally, there is no doubt that CONVIDA EPS-S began the process to comply with the capitalization requirements by injecting 40,000 million more (authorized by the same Superintendency) and even so, less than a month later, the takeover and forced administrative intervention to liquidate. “That is why it is a resolution contrary to the law, in addition to the fact that the capitalization was not taken into account in the motivation of the resolution that orders liquidation,” concludes Lombana.
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