There was an overcharge in the subsidies given to health care and a lack of enforcement of benefits and vaccination campaigns. Those are among the findings of a report from the General Audit Office (AGN, for its acronym in Spanish) on the Special Programs Administration (APE), an agency of the Ministry of Health that funded campaigns against sicknesses of low incidence, high cost, and chronic ailments. On Monday, the staff of the Federal Court of Claudio Bonadio delivered to the headquarters of the AGN a “presentation and seizing warrant” for the "work papers" of the Audit’s report.

The watchdog found that in many 2004 cases the accountabilities of health care subsidies had been "eminently financial" and that the APE did not check that the drugs actually reached the affiliates. In the influenza vaccination campaign of 2004, the subsidy, agreed with six health care companies, valued each dose at $25, while the rest of the providers made a pact with the PAMI to pay $12.12 per vaccine.
 
On the other hand, the AGN noted that "reasonableness" in the dosage amounts requested by each health care company was not verified with previous years and in 2004 "the requirement that each provider give evidence of the application of vaccines was no longer required."
 
The watchdog also detected irregularities in the previous years. Bankers Health Care received in 2002 70% of a grant of $225,000 ($157,500) for the influenza vaccination with a commitment to APE of "paying the rest after providing the corresponding accountability for the entire sum," says the report. The documentation submitted by the Bank on the campaign was challenged by the Deputy Accountability, which claimed a list of the beneficiaries vaccinated and the vendor’s invoice for the full sum. The Bank said "they did not know the process" by which they had received the subsidy and APE who did not request a correction of the health care, paid an overvalued balance: the provider's bill was $ 197,676, of which $40,176 would have been reimbursed, but the legal department of the agency decided to complete the original figure, $67,500. According to the AGN, this "was not added to the subsidy file." 

Meanwhile, the Hotel and Food Health Care asked in November 2000 for a 1.3 million grant to cancel liability services and paid accounts for $550,000. In those accounts there is information on the restructuring of the contract with the provider but not the payment of invoices for services which justified the disbursement. Moreover, the AGN detected other subsidies where UTHGRA did not prove where the money of the benefits went.
 
Other health care companies were also exempted from justifying APE subsidies. The Health Staff’s turned into reimbursements, transfers not rendered for $240,200.20, so did OSECAC for $63,000. For the Railway’s Health Care, the APE approved a payout of $423,384 "without verifying the validity of the commercial elements presented" in the accountability.
 
In 2001 subsidies were paid with bonds that at the time of the audit’s work – August 2005- had not been rendered or returned for $12,606,653.38. There were also defaulted bonds payments with a face value of $ 7,028,167.44 and a loan to PAMI for $ 127,335,336.46 which was not accounted for