AOK Plus

AOK Plus - The health insurance company for Saxony and Thuringia
social insurance	statutory health insurance
Cash register type	general regional health insurance
legal form	Public corporation
founding	January 1, 2008
Jurisdiction	Saxony , Thuringia
Seat	Dresden
Board	Rainer Striebel (Chairman) Stefan Knupfer (Deputy)
Board of Directors	Chair: Iris Kloppich, Sven Nobereit (30 members in total)
Supervisory authority	Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection
Insured	3.26 million (June 30, 2018)
Budget volume	11.1 billion euros (2017)
Offices	146
Employee	approx. 7000 (June 30, 2018)
Website	www.aok.de/pk/plus

The the health insurance company for Saxony and Thuringia - AOK Plus : (own spelling AOK PLUS is a carrier of) public health insurance from the group of general local health insurance and nursing care insurance for the countries of Saxony and Thuringia .

The headquarters of AOK Plus is based in Dresden . It has more than 140 branches in Saxony and Thuringia. Around 7,000 employees look after the more than 3 million insured persons. The budget volume of the health insurance fund was around 11.1 billion euros in 2017.

history

On January 1, 2008, AOK Sachsen and AOK Thuringia merged to form AOK Plus. AOK Plus intended to merge with AOK Hessen on January 1, 2011 . However, the AOK Plus board of directors ended the merger negotiations in November 2010.

Contribution rates

Since January 1, 2009 the contribution rates have been standardized by the legislator. As of January 1, 2017, AOK Plus will levy an income-related additional contribution of 0.6 percent of the contributory income.

AOK Saxony

AOK building in Leipzig , built 1923–1925 by Otto Droge

AOK Plus building in Erfurt , built in 1930 by Theo Kellner

The Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK) Sachsen was a Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse that existed from 1997 to 2007 and was based in Dresden. It was created on January 1, 1997 from the merger of the AOK Dresden, the AOK Chemnitz, the AOK Leipzig and the State Association of Saxony. Through the merger with the AOK Thuringia on January 1st, 2008, it became part of the AOK Plus.

Board of Directors

The AOK Board of Directors consists of insured and half employer representatives (equal representation). Alternating chairmen of the board of directors are Sven Nobereit (employer representative) and Iris Kloppich (insurance representative).

The composition of the Board of Directors is decided every six years in the social elections .

Web links

• Website of the health insurance company AOK Plus

Individual evidence

1. ^ AOK Sachsen-Thüringen merges with Hessen. ( Memento from July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: MDR.de , June 25, 2010.
2. ^ AOK merger of Saxony, Thuringia and Hesse.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: aok.de , June 25, 2010.  
3. ↑ AOK PLUS cancels merger with AOK Hessen. In: aokplus-online.de , November 23, 2010

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 47 "  N , 13 ° 43 ′ 35.8"  E