A new journalistic complaint related to the corruption in the public health system Shake the government. Oculists from all over the country claim that Among the social work of retirees and pensioners, pays up to ten times more for intraocular lenses used in cataract operations.
Among es The largest social work in Latin Americawith an approximate universe of five million affiliates and affiliates between Jubilades (with their relatives in charge), pensioners and veterans of Falklands. In addition to comprehensive medical assistance, it performs social benefits.
This Sunday, the program “And tomorrow what?” that leads Luciana Geuna On the channel TN (Clarín Group) issued a report in which the change produced in July in the purchase mode of intraocular lenses. Until that month, each oculista bought them directly to each laboratory and then delivered the invoice in Among in exchange for cost plus fees for surgery.
According to TNuntil then “the price was transparent and It was around $ 35,000 for each monofocal lens, without place for premiums or intermediaries that take a slice. ”And that the reference price was the same as the four laboratories provided by the lenses. Today, for those same inputs, Among It’s paying Between $ 150 thousand and $ 300 thousand.
The maneuver demonstrates An agreement (of which there are probably no formal records) Between officials and suppliers to apply exorbitant overpricing. And it was completed in two movements: first the purchasing system was changed, going from being thousands of particular transactions between oculists and laboratories to a centralized purchase of the Among ; Then, the agency made a tender through which businessmen began to bill with new prices.
The question is imposed: taking out the costs of each input, with how much of that overfacturing the entrepreneurs themselves and how much is distributed among government representatives What do social work handle?
According to complaints of own militants of La Libertad advanceswho more fingering officials in the Among was Eduardo “Lule” Menempolitical partner of Karina Milei to which Diego Spagnuolo directly accused of receiving the 3 % of the coimas in the National Disability Agency (Andis). All with the endorsement of the director of the Among , Esteban Leguizamoa career doctor from the agency who was tasty to Liberfacha management.
July 10 was published in the Official Gazette the Resolution 1560 of Among signed by the executive deputy director Carlos Blas Zamparolo. There is approved the Public tender 12/25 for the provision for one year (with an option to extension for another year) of intraocular lenses for the attention of affiliates and affiliates. The five benefited laboratories are Implantec , MSZ , Medical Vision 2000 , Vsa high complexity y CASIN OPTICAL CENTER .
In the detail of that resolution, as seen below, the “new” prices to be paid for the Among . Between five and ten times more of what is paid in the market. “The estimated total amount of this award (…) amounts to the sum of eighty thousand seven hundred and three hundred and fifty -four thousand four hundred twenty -one with 10/100.” Yeah, $ 80.730.354.421,10
The scandal is in sight: it is assumed that if PAMI centralizes the purchase of the lenses is in a position to negotiate minor prices to those of the market. But it happened backwards. And the maneuver took little to rumble, both among doctors and between affiliates. According to Luciana Geuna’s investigation, in a group of Whatsapp in which more than 500 ophthalmologists and ophthalmologists that attend for Among The complaints rained. Hence the complaint was disseminated publicly it was a matter of days.
Examples of the scam
The reconstruction of the channel of Clarín Group (Unsospecado of opponent to the general adjustment scheme of Javier Milei) shows concrete examples that the negotiated shows.
The company Implantec S.A. It sells to private ophthalmologists brand brand Acryfold at a price of $ 24.800 per unit. “Exactly the same product was billed to Among a $ 162.166”, Says the report.
In the case of MEDICAL VISION SA the lenses Eyeol selling $ 28.249 are invoiced to Among nothing less than $ 279.704. And 990 % overpricing.
MsZ srl He charged Among Brand lens Auroflex a total of $ 177.939. How much does it sell it in a particular way? Some $ 38.000four and a half times less.
The data arise from the comparison of prices disseminated by the national government itself in the Resolution 1560 of Among and the purchase invoices and the budget orders made by the oculists themselves, many of which were shared in the chat where they communicate between them and them.
To the scandal of the superfacturing millionaire, coordinated between officials and businessmenthe complaints of the doctors about the doctors about the Derived operational problems of the change of purchase system of the lens. For example, when they ask the Among Those inputs, these take much more than before In reaching destination, which forces professionals to reprogram the cataract surgeries already scheduled.
“Before the scandal, from the Among They went out to justify the change of system alleging that the previous scheme had ‘serious shortcomings’: lack of traceability, absence of controls in the delivery of inputs and even cases of collection of undue copagos to the affiliates, ”says the report of TN. And he adds that “on the controversy for prices, the Among He argued that ‘there is no place for comparison’, trying to take off from the criticism and discontent that grows between health workers and affiliates. “
In May the management of Among headed by Leguizamo It had already remained in the focus of the complaints of corruption. After crossed complaints between the internal wings of La Libertad advancesthe government modified the system of Distribution of diapers and dressings. The tender benefited the logistics company Urbano Express (which did not have experience in the field).
The curious fact, although nothing surprising, is that 30 % of the shares of Urbano Express They are in the hands of Clarín Group the one that today denounces in its television signal irregularities in the Among . With the new system, the State pays 20 % more of what was paid with the previous one.
He Permanent attack on retirees and retirees from A band of voracious agents of economic corporations who perched on the political power disguised as “anticast”, shows his most perverse face in the Negotiated phenomenal with laboratories and suppliers.
The audios of Spanish (never denied by him) showed that the president’s same sister and his closest advisor received at least one 3 % of coimas paid by drug stores that supply Gave . The complaints of oculists who provide services to the Among They indicate that corruption is, as in all previous efforts, a very dense and dark stain that extends to all national government agencies.
Meanwhile, millions of retirees and retirees, pensioners and pensioners must “justify” income of destitution so that they do not take off benefits and obtain remedies with 100 %coverage. The perversity advances.
More and more reasons are added to Accompany every Wednesday to retirees in their claims in front of the National Congress. But also to raise The need to put Among Really at service of the millions of affiliates and affiliates. If the social work ceases to be managed by bureaucrats who change with each government but maintain the adjustment and the negotiated, and out managed by their own laborers in society with the affiliatesundoubtedly the story would be diametrically opposite.
Resolution 1560/2025
Resolution 1560/2025 of PAMI by The Left Daily
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