Prepaid: In April, the government already set the upper limit for the increase of fees and plans

Expected increases for subscribed They’ve been on everyone’s lips lately. It has been applied since February new quota increase formula of medical companies, which considers different increases according to the level of income of the affiliated companies. But for April, the Government has already limited growth.

Affiliated companies with net income below six minimum wages ($406,000) they can enter the register and request that the percentage increase be applied to them. In these cases, the adjustment formula is different and is equal to 90% of the salary movement, which is measured by the index of the average taxable compensation of permanent employees (Ripte)..

As expected, the applied differentiated formulas gave larger increases for users with higher incomes and smaller increases for those who registered. It will be applied in March 7.66% to all users and 5.04% to those who are enrolled.

However, in April, the government seems to have set a ceiling. As reported by the Supervision of health services, “he Health Cost Indexwhich measures the evolution of items of human resources, medicines, medical supplies, other supplies and general expenses that are significant for the sector, had a significant decline during February, resulting in 2.36%”.

This value is less than the limit 90% Ripte index (4.87%). “It’s because of that The increase approved for the month of April 2023 will be identical for all users of Prepaid Medicine and may not exceed 2.36%”The government clarified.

The formula applied by prepaid was published in November in the Official Gazette, by decree 743/2022 signed by the president, Alberto Fernandez.

It entered into force in February, and will be implemented, according to the decree, for 18 months. It came after Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner questioned the approval of an increase in quotas for pre-paid medicines that had been scheduled for December