Medicus announced the increase in its fees starting in January. Photo: archive
The prepaid medicine company Medicus informed its associates a 44 percent increase in the value of the quota starting next Januaryin line with the increases announced by other providers since the decree of necessity and urgency 70/2023 was made official last Thursday.
“We hereby inform you that, In accordance with the provisions of DNU 70/2023, the essential recomposition is possible of the values of the current plans”, indicates a communication sent by Medicus in the last few hours to its associates.
In this sense, it states that, “in order to maintain a medical care service appropriate to economic and technological realities, the fee for the month of January will have an increase of 44%, which includes the increase reported on November 30” .
“It is public and notorious that health care has been seriously affected not only by inflation (which has far exceeded the increases duly authorized), but also by the increase incessant increase in the price of medicines, as well as the increase in the exchange rate that impacts the costs of supplies and prostheses, both domestic and imported.“he adds.
In this way, this prepaid medicine company joined what others in the field had already announced last Friday.
“Attentive to the health emergency decreed by the National Government and contained in DNU No. 70/2023 published in the Official Gazette on December 20 of this year, it is appropriate to inform you that through the same the recomposition of the prices of the current plans is possible in order to cover the cost discrepancies that have occurred mainly in recent months as a consequence of various factors,” Swiss Medical indicated last Friday. in a communication distributed to its associates.
There, it was noted that “the value of the installments for the month of January 2024 will be increased by 40% calculated on the value of the installment for the month of December 2023, extending the expiration date of the installment for the day January 22, 2024”.
Similarly, the prepaid Omint informed its affiliates of an increase of 40.80% that will be applied for installments due in January.
Following the announcement of the DNU deregulatory of different aspects of the economy by President Javier Milei last Wednesday night through a message broadcast on the national network, the president of Swiss Medical Group, Claudio Belocopitt, had indicated that the prepaid medicine, as it had been working, “was going to hit a mountain.”
Price liberalization
DNU 70/2023 introduces modifications to the regulatory framework for prepaid medicine, liberalizing the prices of their fees and allowing members to directly redirect their health contributions to these companies.
Among the recitals of the decree it is stated that the liberalization of prices will allow “increasing the competitiveness of the system.”
The modification to Law 26,682 – approved in 2011 – takes away the power of the State to “review the values of the quotas and their modifications” and eliminates the permanent commission that regulated prepaid payments that included representatives of the Ministry of Health and Economy, as well as the Permanent Concertation Council, which had ad-honorem members from Health, and entities representing users and companies.
It also cancels the obligation of companies to transfer members to another company in the event of bankruptcy.
In addition to not being able to regulate prices, the enforcement authority will not have the ability to set minimum mandatory tariffs or regulate contract models.
The only criterion that will remain in force for the prepaid installments is that there is a maximum variation of three times between the differential price for the plans of the first and last age group.
2023-12-24 17:21:25
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