Afidro warns that the UPC should have increased to 16.4% - Latin america News

The health sector has added this New Year a new chapter to its long confrontation with the government of Gustavo Petro. The decision of the Executive to increase only 5.36% the Unit of Payments by Capitation (UPC), the amount paid to the Health Promoters Entities (EPS) for each affiliate, has fallen like a bucket of cold water. It is a slight improvement compared to the one demanded by insurers, hospitals and several experts to avoid the collaps…

The doctor Olga Zuluaga is at the head of the association that represents these institutions and has already warned that the low increase of the UPC can bring problems The article The Ricaralda doctor who will face the possible deficit of public hospitals was originally published in Las2orillas. Copyrights Las2orillas.co

The Deputy Minister of Social Protection, Luis Alberto Martínez, explained the increase of 5.36% in the Unit of Payment for Capitation (UPC) for the year 2025, in response to the criticism of various sectors. According to Martínez, the decision was made based on the information reported by the Entidades Promotoras de Salud (EPS), but said information presented "serious inconsistencies". Martínez pointed out that the data sent by the EPS showed "…

The president said that by subtracting expected inflation from 3% to 5.36%, the real increase would be 2.44%, which would represent the "real rise"

This Thursday continues the controversy over the increase defined by the Ministry of Health for UPC, which is the amount that the EPS receive for each of its affiliates to pay for medical care during the year. For this 2025 the government defined by decree that the UPC would increase only 5.36 % for both the contributory and the subsidized regime, a low increase if it is taken into account that experts pointed out that the increase of the UPC mu…

Afidro warns that the UPC should have increased to 16.4% - Latin america News

The Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Colombia, through Resolution 2717 of 2024, has set the value of the Capitation Payment Unit (UPC) for the year 2025, with an adjustment of 5.36%. (Read: 5.36% increase in UPC deepens health crisis and aggravates impacts on patients) This figure, however, has generated strong concern in various sectors of the health field, especially in the Association of Pharmaceutical Research and Development Labo…