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Hospitals are without money and banks refused to lend
By: JORGE CORREA C. | 9:34 pm | June 26, 2011
$ 1.9 billion debts carried Hospital Association to ask the Government a lifeline.
The banks began to close the door of credit to hospitals, because, he says, "the portfolio risk is very high," said the president of the Colombian Association of Hospitals and Clinics (ACHC), Juan Carlos Giraldo.
Lack of resources to keep running and took the first victim in Bogot?: the Hospital San Carlos, who owe about 25,000 pesos, had to suspend their services. His patients were sent to other entities.
The illiquidity of the IPS, the non-payment of services provided by hospitals to members of EPS contributive and subsidized regimes and poor people uninsured is metastasizing.
"Many banks in different regions of the country have reported to hospitals that portfolio risk is very high. Therefore, what once was an emergency gate is closed today and you can not obtain credit from this sector" , ACHC says in a letter to the Minister of Social Protection, Mauricio Santa Maria.
The alarm is widespread: from Popayan to Valledupar and from Cali, where there is anxiety about the fate of the landmark Hospital Universitario del Valle, to Medellin, said the manager.
As no resources to buy supplies and pay staff, among other duties, said the closure begins with the failure to provide certain services to the population.
The guild, whose members by 35 per cent are public hospitals, says Giraldo, all days are coming all complaints about breaches of the obligations of payers.
According to the ACHC, at the end of 2010 the debt portfolio, the more than 60 days, exceeded 1.9 billion pesos.
Through the direct rotation, started last May, the Ministry has tried to ease the situation of the subsidized regime. At EPS of this scheme and the public municipalities with fewer than 100 000 inhabitants have turned 373 027 000 pesos.
Recently, the Deputy Health Minister, Beatriz Londo?o, indicated that this money be paid immediately EPS to its network of service providers.
Why not give them the money directly to the IPS without giving them a tour of the EPS? "We want to make the turn directly to hospitals and other IPS. The first turn, the May at hospitals could be we did. We are convinced that the end of this year most of those resources directly entered the hospital and not to the EPS. The goal is to turn the lender will end, "said the Minister.
If that could not be done with all of the 373.027 million pesos, he explained, because "you need to know how much to turn, the hospital does not have that information, not having a contract with the EPS," it does not receive directly silver.
The official said there is no clarity on what the master accounts from hospitals, no one knows where to make the turn, so it is necessary that these issues are solved by hospitals.
In July, he added, they will turn more to public hospitals, the goal is that by the end of September or October will turn everything you can to the public hospital network, since "the priority is not the EPS but the IPS and that silver will reach these need to avoid as many steps as possible. "
And the private IPS? "We want these turns can also be made to the private hospital network to the extent that the amount and where we know them," said Santa Maria.
Rescue Fund
The president of the ACHC proposed to Minister of protection the immediate creation of a stabilization fund or rescue one hand, we pay the public and private hospitals validated delinquent accounts, and other charges its borrowers "some of whom see themselves as invincible," the respective interests of default
Spanish to English translation
Hospitals are without money and banks refused to lend
By: JORGE CORREA C. | 9:34 pm | June 26, 2011
$ 1.9 billion debts carried Hospital Association to ask the Government a lifeline.
The banks began to close the door of credit to hospitals, because, he says, "the portfolio risk is very high," said the president of the Colombian Association of Hospitals and Clinics (ACHC), Juan Carlos Giraldo.
Lack of resources to keep running and took the first victim in Bogot?: the Hospital San Carlos, who owe about 25,000 pesos, had to suspend their services. His patients were sent to other entities.
The illiquidity of the IPS, the non-payment of services provided by hospitals to members of EPS contributive and subsidized regimes and poor people uninsured is metastasizing.
"Many banks in different regions of the country have reported to hospitals that portfolio risk is very high. Therefore, what once was an emergency gate is closed today and you can not obtain credit from this sector" , ACHC says in a letter to the Minister of Social Protection, Mauricio Santa Maria.
The alarm is widespread: from Popayan to Valledupar and from Cali, where there is anxiety about the fate of the landmark Hospital Universitario del Valle, to Medellin, said the manager.
As no resources to buy supplies and pay staff, among other duties, said the closure begins with the failure to provide certain services to the population.
The guild, whose members by 35 per cent are public hospitals, says Giraldo, all days are coming all complaints about breaches of the obligations of payers.
According to the ACHC, at the end of 2010 the debt portfolio, the more than 60 days, exceeded 1.9 billion pesos.
Through the direct rotation, started last May, the Ministry has tried to ease the situation of the subsidized regime. At EPS of this scheme and the public municipalities with fewer than 100 000 inhabitants have turned 373 027 000 pesos.
Recently, the Deputy Health Minister, Beatriz Londo?o, indicated that this money be paid immediately EPS to its network of service providers.
Why not give them the money directly to the IPS without giving them a tour of the EPS? "We want to make the turn directly to hospitals and other IPS. The first turn, the May at hospitals could be we did. We are convinced that the end of this year most of those resources directly entered the hospital and not to the EPS. The goal is to turn the lender will end, "said the Minister.
If that could not be done with all of the 373.027 million pesos, he explained, because "you need to know how much to turn, the hospital does not have that information, not having a contract with the EPS," it does not receive directly silver.
The official said there is no clarity on what the master accounts from hospitals, no one knows where to make the turn, so it is necessary that these issues are solved by hospitals.
In July, he added, they will turn more to public hospitals, the goal is that by the end of September or October will turn everything you can to the public hospital network, since "the priority is not the EPS but the IPS and that silver will reach these need to avoid as many steps as possible. "
And the private IPS? "We want these turns can also be made to the private hospital network to the extent that the amount and where we know them," said Santa Maria.
Rescue Fund
The president of the ACHC proposed to Minister of protection the immediate creation of a stabilization fund or rescue one hand, we pay the public and private hospitals validated delinquent accounts, and other charges its borrowers "some of whom see themselves as invincible," the respective interests of default