{"entity":{"id":"pami-argentina","kind":"institution","name":"PAMI (Instituto Nacional de Servicios Sociales para Jubilados y Pensionados)","aka":["PAMI","INSSJP","Instituto Nacional de Servicios Sociales para Jubilados y Pensionados"],"tldr":"Argentina's health insurer for retired people and pensioners, created in 1971, which says it covers 5 million people. It pays all of the cost of cancer medicines for its members and runs a cancer care plan.","summary":"The Instituto Nacional de Servicios Sociales para Jubilados y Pensionados, known as PAMI, was created in 1971 to give comprehensive medical care to older people. It describes itself as the largest obra social in Latin America, covering 5 million retired people and their dependants, pensioners and veterans of the Malvinas war.\n\nPAMI states that it covers 100% of the cost of cancer medicines for its members, prescribed on an electronic prescription with a form and a clinical summary. Its Plan Integral de Cuidado y Tratamiento Oncológico (PICTO) gives members on its list of cancer patients (those who have seen an oncologist, are on specific drug treatment, are having radiotherapy or have had cancer surgery) a choice of oncologist, simplified procedures, faster appointments, psycho-oncology support and a dedicated telephone line. How many of its members are treated for cancer was not found on the pages read; figures on this in the plan page's markup are not displayed on the page and are not used here.\n\nThe coordinates are a Buenos Aires centroid, not the office's address.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"PAMI: Plan Oncológico (PICTO)","url":"https://www.pami.org.ar/plan-oncologico"},{"label":"PAMI: medicamentos oncológicos (trámite)","url":"https://www.pami.org.ar/tramite/medicamentos-oncologicos"},{"label":"PAMI: historia","url":"https://www.pami.org.ar/historia"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["superintendencia-servicios-salud-argentina","inc-argentina"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Buenos Aires","country":"AR","lat":-34.603,"lng":-58.381,"institutionType":"government","website":"https://www.pami.org.ar","programs":["100% coverage of cancer medicines","Plan Integral de Cuidado y Tratamiento Oncológico (PICTO)","Psycho-oncology support"]},"route":"/institutions/pami-argentina/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"inc-argentina","kind":"institution","name":"Instituto Nacional del Cáncer (Argentina)","route":"/institutions/inc-argentina/"},{"id":"superintendencia-servicios-salud-argentina","kind":"institution","name":"Superintendencia de Servicios de Salud (Argentina)","route":"/institutions/superintendencia-servicios-salud-argentina/"}]}}