Ismael Bermudez
11/04/2020 4:17 PM
Clarín.com
Economy
Updated 11/04/2020 4:45 PM
The increase in private medicine quotas from December will not be 15% but 10%.
Invoking a
"material error"
in the Resolution of October 30 that set the increase of 15%, a rule that
was not published in the Official Gazette,
now
Resolution 1787/2020
of the Ministry of Health was released, setting the increase of quotas by
10%
, a rule that was published moments ago as a Supplement in the Official Gazette.
Based on the previous Resolution, prepaid companies informed their affiliates of the 15% increase.
For this reason, Resolution 1787 clarifies that
in the event that the prepayments have reported the 15% increase, the 10% will
be considered valid for the purpose of communicating the increases to the affiliates
30 days in advance.
Another novelty is that the resolution repealed in addition to the 15% for December,
advanced another 10% for February 2021
.
The Resolution now in force does not anticipate any increase for 2021.
In private medicine companies, the reduction in the increase in fees was
unexpected,
although these days they were struck by the fact that the Resolution with the increase of 15% plus 10% had not been published in the Official Gazette, despite the fact that
it was communicated to them last Friday.
It is evident that there were
disagreements
with the Ministry of Health for anticipating an increase that
did not have the consensus of the Chief of Staff and President Alberto Fernández
due to the incidence of these increases in family costs and in inflation rates.
A key factor that would have led to the annulment of the previous Resolution is that although prepaid entities had increases in costs, on the other hand, since last March through decree 300/2020
the State reduced employer contributions by 95%
of the companies in the sector destined for the Argentine Integrated Pension System (SIPA), at the same time that a lower rate was set for them in the payment of the tax on debits and credits.
According to this decree, these benefits reach social works, health insurance services -prepaid and mutual medicine-, hospitals, ambulatory care services performed by doctors and dentists, diagnosis and treatment services, and emergency services and transfers, among others. .
Without the ATP program, the fiscal cost of the measures adopted by the pandemic for the Health sector, as a whole, is $ 64,106 million according to the Congressional Budget Office (OPC).
The most important item is the $ 5,000 bonus for health personnel from the Public and Private Sector.
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