Resumen en inglés

Prospective Global Payment is a payment and contracting model in force in Colombia and highly applicable for the optimal functioning of the Health System, which is why it is widely used by Health Promotion Companies and Health Service Provider Institutions at the time to establish contractual agreements for the provision of health services to the Colombian population. Based on this, the present monograph aims to analyze the function of prospective global payment and its role in the contracting of health services based on the experience of the IPS MediSinú of the city of Monteria, Córdoba. During the development of this work, different concepts of the contracting modality object of study are presented here, that is, the Prospective Global Payment, these definitions allow to build a concept on it and to know the way in which it affects the contractual relationships. Health and Health Service Provider Institutions, in the same way, clarity is made about the subclasses of Prospective Global Payment models, and what each of them implies, thus having per episode per specialty, among others. There is also a series of allusions about the advantages and disadvantages of this hiring model and the way in which they should be assumed in a managerial way. Knowledge of these factors broadens the vision of a contracting model that is gaining strength in the country.