by Through a statement to the public opinion, the Administrator of the Resources of the General System of Social Security in Health (Adres) clarified what is happening with the Soat payments.
“Giving scope to the concerns of public opinion, citizens and other sectors interested in the public tender LP-008, the Administrator of the Resources of the General System of Social Security in Health -ADRES- informs that on March 8, 2023 the award was declared void, since none of the bidders met the minimum score required in the specifications”, clarified the entity.
Following the line, they explained that this tender is aimed at award the verification process for the recognition and payment of health services and expenses derived from traffic accidents caused by unidentified or uninsured vehicles, Soat, catastrophic events of natural origin, terrorist events and other events approved by the Ministry of Health and Social Protection (MSPS).
They also announced that they will begin a new public tender. Said tender will incorporate the current needs of the entity and those specified in decrees 2497 and 2644 of 2022 and Resolution 326 of 2023.
“Given the contingency derived from the result of the public tender LP-008, the claims presented by the IPS before the Adres are being audited by the 204 contractors that the Directorate of Other Benefits of the Adres currently has; Additionally, the hiring process of another 110 auditors is being advanced, who will enter to support the audit process in order not to impact the flow of resources from health providers, ”explained the entity led by Félix León Martínez.
They also specified that at this moment they do not have any account filed for traffic accidents and confirmed that they are carrying out with the Ministry of Health, an administrative act to improve the opportunity in the flow of resources to the IPS related to the attention that provide to victims of traffic accidents.
Context of the news
The representative to the Chamber, Andrés Forero, announced on the morning of this Friday, March 10, that he asked the Attorney General’s Office to investigate the director of the Adres for managing the Soat reduction, since he assured that there are about 20,000 invoices dammed by the discount on that insurance.
Forero pointed out that the Adres must take charge of the audit and payment of health services as a result of traffic accidents that were not covered by the Mandatory Traffic Accident Insurance (Soat) or involved ghost vehicles.
However, the responsibilities of the Adres were expanded due to the fact that the national government issued a decree in which it made a reduction in the price of Soat for some vehicles, with which it sought to reduce the high evasion that was occurring. The discount applied was 50%.
The decree specified that vehicles such as motorcycles of less than 100 cc, motorcycles of 100 cc and up to 200 cc, motorcycles, trikes and quadricycles, five-passenger motorcycles, business cars, taxis, would be part of a differential risk range. and urban minibuses, urban public service, buses and small buses, and established inter-municipal public service vehicles.
Forero sent a right of petition to ask the director of the Adres, Félix León Martínez, how the Adres was doing to manage these resources and what personnel it had hired for that purpose.
He pointed out that, on February 16, they answered that of the 233 auditors they had commissioned to follow up on the cases of ghost vehicles and non-Soat vehicles, only 79 had been hired.
“We were aware of the Secop (Electronic System for Public Procurement) and we realized that this figure had risen very little,” Forero told a press conference.
As he explained, until two days ago they had barely hired 92 auditors. “In other words, there is no technical and administrative capacity to take charge of non-Soat vehicles, ghost vehicles and much less of everything that the Soat discount implies,” Forero said. The problem, he warned, is that the bid to get those auditors has already expired.
