The process of handing over Sanitas to a new legal representative has begun, Supersalud announced.

Health Superintendent Giovanny Rubiano announced that the process of handing over EPS Sanitas has begun, after the Constitutional Court annulled the resolutions that had intervened in the insurance company.

According to the official, the entity initiated the process while the high court resolves a motion for annulment and a request for clarification of the ruling filed by the Superintendency of Health: "Although we made the technical request, the Court has not responded. Therefore, Mr. Minister, we will proceed to return the delivery to its very important owners," Rubiano said.

The court's decision was announced at the end of June, so two months have passed, after which Sanitas shareholders, led by the Keralty Group, still have no control over the insurance company.

In response, two weeks ago, the Keralty group and its companies Colsanitas, Medisanitas, and the Colsanitas Prepaid Medicine Company, along with the company's director in Colombia, Juan Pablo Rueda, once again appealed to the Constitutional Court to request compliance with Ruling SU-277 of 2025, in which the high court annulled the administrative intervention.

The plaintiffs' attorney stated in the brief that "the National Health Superintendency has not complied with the order of this Supreme Court, which implies that the violation of the fundamental rights protected by the constitutional ruling in the aforementioned ruling persists."

The Court's decision, issued on June 26 and notified on July 23, determined that the Superintendency of Health violated the right to due process by ordering the takeover of Sanitas. Consequently, it annulled the resolutions that allowed the intervention and extension of the measure. The plaintiffs believed that this order must be complied with immediately.

In previous instances, both the Superior Court of Bogotá and the Supreme Court of Justice had rejected the protection action, finding it inadmissible. However, the Constitutional Court decided to reverse those decisions and, instead, uphold the plaintiffs' right to due process.

The Court went further by nullifying the resolutions that led to the takeover and administrative intervention of EPS Sanitas. Specifically, the following were nullified:

All of these resolutions, as explained by the Court, violated the due process rights of the affected entities, leading the high court to order their annulment. The ruling details that this decision was made "in accordance with the provisions of the reasoning of this judgment," the high court stated in a statement.

MATEO CHACÓN ORDUZ | Life Subeditor