AOK Lower Saxony

AOK - The health fund for Lower Saxony
social insurance	Statutory health insurance
Cash register type	general regional health insurance
legal form	Public corporation
founding	January 1, 1884
Jurisdiction	Lower Saxony
Seat	Hanover
Board	Jürgen Peter (Chairman)
Supervisory authority	Lower Saxony Ministry for Social Affairs, Women, Family and Health
Insured	approx. 2.67 million (2017)
Budget volume	8.2 billion euros (2012)
Offices	121 (2017)
Employee	approx. 6,900 (2017)
Website	www.niedersachsen.aok.de

Directorate of AOK Lower Saxony in Hanover

The General Local Health Insurance Fund for the State of Lower Saxony calls itself AOK - The Health Insurance Fund for Lower Saxony (AOK Lower Saxony) . It is a health and nursing care insurance company . Its headquarters are in Hanover .

history

The local health insurance funds were founded in 1884 by Imperial Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , immediately after the introduction of statutory health insurance in 1883 .

The head office of the health insurance company has been the headquarters building on Hildesheimer Strasse in Hanover-Döhren since 2003 . At the beginning of 2009, Lower Saxony's largest regional AOK unit moved into a new building on Hans-Böckler-Allee in the Bult district of Hanover .

In 2008 she is a founding member of the ÜdaV (monitoring of billing contract partners) as an organization together with several company and guild funds, the Knappschaft and the agricultural health insurance against billing fraud .

On April 1, 2010, the Lower Saxony guild health insurance fund and the AOK Lower Saxony merged, the name of the AOK was retained.

AOK Niedersachsen has been the official partner of Hannover 96 and the women's Bundesliga team of VfL Wolfsburg since 2012 . In 2014, the health insurance company secured the right to name the AOK stadium (5200 seats) in Wolfsburg that was under construction until 2020 .

Since 2014, the "AOK Open" has been held every year in mid-January in the Collinghorst tennis center in the municipality of Rhauderfehn. It is the largest indoor tennis tournament in northwest Germany.

Household (without care insurance)

2013 revenue

Ingestion	in Euro
Allocations from the health fund	7,163.51 million
Other revenue	72.23 million
Total revenue	7,235.74 million

2013 editions

expenditure	in Euro
Hospital treatment	2,432.27 million
Medical treatment	1,110.93 million
drug	1,086.78 million
Administrative expenses	355.47 million
Sick pay	302.42 million
Dental treatment (without dentures)	293.56 million
Tools	263.09 million
Travel expenses	194.44 million
Remedies	178.72 million
Treatment Care and Home Care	169.50 million
dentures	120.33 million
Preventive and rehabilitation services	109.87 million
dialysis	93.32 million
Early detection measures	72.20 million
Pregnancy and motherhood without inpatient delivery	33.43 million
Vaccinations	32.69 million
Other service expenses	82.30 million
Other expenses	90.38 million
Total expenses	7,021.66 million

Contribution rates

Since January 1, 2009 the contribution rates have been standardized by the legislator. The AOK has been charging an additional contribution of 0.8 percent of income since January 1, 2015 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Annual Report 2017 (PDF; 6.02 MB)
2. ↑ Annual Report 2012 ( Memento of the original dated April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ AOK and IKK have merged! . Archived from the original on April 4, 2010. Retrieved June 23, 2011.
4. ↑ Hannover 96 press service: 96 extends exclusive partnership with AOK ahead of schedule until 2016 ots October 9, 2012
5. ↑ AOK receives naming rights for the new stadium in Allerpark ( Memento from August 25, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
6. ^ AOK Lower Saxony: Magazine “stay healthy” 4-2014, pp. 34–35
7. ↑ Additional contribution from AOK Lower Saxony - www.krankenkasseninfo.de. Retrieved April 26, 2017 . 

Web links

• Website of the AOK Lower Saxony

Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 9.6 ″  N , 9 ° 46 ′ 15.1 ″  E