The main conglomerate of private health centers in Rosario, which attends 100,000 consultations per month and performs more than 16,000 surgeries per year, announced that it stops serving members of OSDE.
Through a statement, the Oroño Group reported the suspension of its services for prepaid patients in rosary beads and other surrounding towns, such as Funes and San Lorenzo.
The decision comes after the crossings between the sector of private medicine operators and the National Government, who in mid-April intimated several prepaid to roll back the increases that had exceeded the variation of the inflation of the last few months. This led to a rearrangement of the sector and crossed tensions.
In the case of the Rosario clinics, the measure came into effect on May 1 and affects all plans and establishments affiliated with the Oroño Group and includes the Parque Sanatorium, Oroño Maternity, Children’s Sanatorium and other outpatient clinics and offices.
The consortium of Rosario health centers reported that “OSDE has made the unilateral decision to roll back the increase duly agreed upon and granted in the month of April, corresponding to medical benefits fees of the entire Oroño Group,” as indicated in the statement.
According to statements of Nicolas Villavicenciopresident of Grupo Oroño, to the newspaper Rosary 3the reversal of the increases by OSDE represents a situation of “extreme seriousness” and “attacks the maintenance of benefits and medical fees.”
Despite the government’s effort to slow down inflation, it leaves providers with no room for maneuver,” he said. Villavicencio.
Although the suspension of care for prepaid members came into effect as of May 1, Grupo Oroño said that Scheduled surgery appointments will be respected today, May 2. They clarified that, for the moment, The “ongoing treatments for chronic patients, oncology patients, disabled patients, pregnancies” will be maintained. in the third trimester and internships in progress.”
Created in 1950, the Oroño Group is a union of medical centers in Rosario, among which are the most recognized in the entire province. It is made up of the Parque Sanatorium, Rosario Emergency Center (CER), Children’s Sanatorium, Children’s Emergency Center (CEN), Rosario Cardiovascular Institute (ICR), Oroño Medical Diagnosis, Women’s Diagnosis (Elas), Cibic Laboratories, Maternidad Oroño, Fertya, Ineco Neurociencias Oroño and GO Sanatorio Funes.
The monthly fees of prepaid medicine companies had been deregulated as of DNU 70/23. Despite this, and after the strong increases invoiced until April, the Ministry of Economy required a group of companies in the sector to roll back theyes installment amounts as of December 2023 and recalculate their value adjusting it for inflation forward and not retroactively.
This measure was required of the companies through the Commerce secretary that issued a resolution ordering that the increases be rolled back. At the same time, the National Directorate of Consumer Protectiondetermined that there are multiple indications of a collusive agreement between the main prepaid medicine companies in the country and began an investigation since January into the companies for this alleged cartelization, which would imply that the prepaid medicine providers would have agreed to produce the strong increases that they are accused of.
On the other hand, the Superintendency of Health Services of the Nation (SSS) presented a precautionary measure before Justice so that prepaid medicine companies discount the amount to users. The extension of the precautionary measure now will cover 23 prepaid which cover 95% of the beneficiaries covered by this regime.
