Colombia’s ongoing healthcare crisis threatens to imminently bankrupt the sector’s government watchdog that has been ordered to pay the hospital bills of liquidated health intermediaries. A recent order by a…
Prosecutors arrested the former director of a private healthcare intermediary over the alleged embezzlement of more than $105 billion, equivalent to 5% of Colombia’s GDP, in health funds. The arrest…
Colombia’s health minister on Monday admitted that the country’s healthcare system has a deficit of $1.6 billion (COP5.3 trillion), caused mainly by mismanagement and embezzlement practices in healthcare intermediaries.
President Juan Manuel Santos submitted his new healthcare reform bill to Congress, a proposal that will reportedly eliminate the private insurance companies (EPS) who manage public healthcare funds. Santos declared in…
Colombian authorities arrested 5 EPS Health insurance officials Monday accused of embezzling funds intended for patients. Five officials and former officials of private health insurer Nueva EPS were arrested, accused…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General’s Office opened up two new criminal investigations into irregularities in the provision of medical care and mismanagement of funds administrated by the government agency Fosyga, W Radio…
Colombia’s government will rush a tax bill to Congress this week to fill a budget hole that opened up when the Constitutional Court struck down a presidential decree aimed at…