AOK Northwest

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AOK Nordwest - The Health Insurance Fund
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social insurance Statutory health insurance
Cash register type general regional health insurance
legal form Public corporation
founding October 1, 2010
Jurisdiction Flag of the regional association Westphalia-Lippe.svg Westphalia-Lippe , Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-HolsteinSchleswig-Holstein 
Seat Dortmund
Board Tom Ackermann (Chairman)
Christoph Vauth (Deputy Chairman)
Horst-Peter Hogrebe (Representative of the Chairman)
Iris Kröner (Representative of the Chairman)
Supervisory authority Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Insured 2.9 million (December 11, 2018)
Budget volume approx. 10.2 billion euros
Employee approx. 7600 (December 11, 2018)
Website www.aok.de/nordwest

The General Local Health Insurance Fund for Westphalia , Lippe and Schleswig-Holstein calls itself AOK Nordwest - Die Gesundheitskasse (spelling: AOK NordWest ) . It is a statutory health insurance provider from the group of general local health insurance funds and a long-term care insurance company .

history

The AOK Northwest emerged from the merger between the AOK Schleswig-Holstein and the AOK Westfalen-Lippe on October 1 of 2010.

History of the AOK Westfalen-Lippe

AOK in Recklinghausen
AOK NordWest in Hagen

AOK Westfalen-Lippe was founded on April 1st, 1994 and was based in Dortmund. It emerged from the following 27 general local health insurance funds:

Finances

Contribution rate

Since January 1, 2009 the contribution rates have been standardized by the legislator. Up until December 31, 2014, the AOK did not levy any additional contribution that is independent of the health insurance fund and did not pay any premium to its insured persons. From January 1, 2015, it levied an income-related additional contribution of 0.9 percent of the contributory income. In 2016 and 2017 the additional contribution was 1.1 percent, since 2018 0.9 percent.

Budget volume

The total budget of the AOK Northwest is in the business year 2019 around € 10.2 billion.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c More services, increasing membership numbers, solid finances: AOK NORDWEST keeps the additional contribution stable. nordwest.aok.de, accessed on January 17, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Determination of the statutes of the AOK Westfalen-Lippe - Die Gesundheitskasse (PDF) from February 18, 1994.
  3. ↑ Ordinance on the association of local health insurance funds in North Rhine-Westphalia into two local health insurance funds (PDF) Excerpt from the legal gazette of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, No. 65/1993, p. 835.
  4. ↑ aok.de: Articles 2016 , accessed on January 11, 2016
  5. ↑ Information on the contribution rate. In: nordwest.aok.de. AOK - Die Gesundheitskasse, accessed on January 17, 2017 .
  6. ↑ We are reducing the additional fee to 0.9% ( Memento from December 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 11.5 "  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 30"  E.