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The Government clarified that the deadline for private health companies to refund the surplus they charged to their affiliates is maintained - Infobae
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El Gobierno aclaró que se mantiene el plazo para que las prepagas reintegren el excedente que le cobraron a sus afiliados
La Superintendencia de Servicios de Salud afirmó que la confusión se generó con la convocatoria a una audiencia de conciliación por parte de la Justicia
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May 10, 2024
The Superintendency of Health Services stated that the confusion was generated with the call for a conciliation hearing by Justice
The Government clarified that the deadline for refunds is maintained
The Superintendency of Health Services, dependent on the Ministry of Health, clarified this Friday that the deadline for private health companies to present a payment plan for the money collected from affiliates in excess is maintained . The statement issued on social networks is due to the fact that Justice summoned the parties to a conciliation hearing for next May 27 and confusion was generated with the returns.
“As a result of the interpretation made by some media outlets of the judicial resolution of today, the Superintendence of Health Services clarifies that there is no suspension of what has already been ruled,” they expressed from the body that depends on the Ministry of Health.
The Clarification tweet from the Superintendency of Health Services
In addition, they clarified that “the measure is in force, so Prepaid Medicine Entities must comply with it. The judge called a hearing on the 27th of this month, in order to give continuity to the judicial process and resolve how the money will be returned to the beneficiaries.”
Earlier, it was learned that the federal civil and commercial judge Juan Rafael Stinco summoned the national government and the prepaid medicine companies to a conciliation hearing for next May 27 at 10 in the case in which the Executive Branch He demanded that the companies' increases be rolled back to December and that they return the money collected.
The request for that meeting was claimed in the case by several companies that also objected to the decision to have to return the money. “Attentive to the multiple requests made and the reasons given, within the framework of the execution of the precautionary measure issued on 05/03/2024 and the effect of your appeal (art. 198 of the CPCCN), the parties are summoned to the hearing which is established in the terms of art. 36 of the CPCC for May 27 of this year, at 10:00 a.m.,” the judge ruled in a brief letter sent to the parties and accessed by Infobae .
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This article of the National Civil and Commercial Procedure Code establishes that judges may “attempt a total or partial conciliation of the conflict or procedural incident, being able to propose and promote that the parties refer the litigation to other alternative means of conflict resolution.” And for that the magistrate “may at any time order the personal appearance of the parties to attempt conciliation.”
The case began with a presentation from the Superintendency of Health Services (SSS) for Justice to order the prepaid companies to roll back their increases to December, to set an increase rate and to return the surplus collected. The decision to suspend the increases had already been made by the government administratively for six months considering that the companies had cartelized prices.
Last Friday, Judge Stinco accepted the SSS's proposal and issued a precautionary measure by which he ordered that prepaid medicine companies "retrovert the amount of the values to the quotas in force as of December 2023 " and update the values “in accordance with the Consumer Price Index prepared monthly by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses.”
Also that the companies return the surplus collected with “a credit in favor of each of them.” For this, the judge gave each company a period of five days to present “an action plan to implement the monetary return.” If they do not do so, the companies were warned that “the necessary measures will be taken to achieve compliance.” Now that decision has been suspended.
