AOK Rhineland / Hamburg

AOK Rheinland Hamburg - The health insurance company
social insurance	Statutory health insurance
Cash register type	general regional health insurance
legal form	Public corporation
founding	July 1, 2006
Jurisdiction	Rhineland , Hamburg
Seat	Dusseldorf
Board	Günter Waltermann
Supervisory authority	Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Insured	about 3 million (2018)
Budget volume	12.4 billion (2019)
Offices	92 (2019)
Employee	7684 (2019)
Website	www.aok.de/rheinland-hamburg

AOK head office Hamburg Pappelallee

The AOK Rheinland Hamburg - the health insurance company based in Düsseldorf is a health and care insurance company for the Rhineland (administrative districts of Düsseldorf and Cologne of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ) and Hamburg .

history

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AOK Rheinland / Hamburg was created from the merger between AOK Rheinland and AOK Hamburg on July 1, 2006.

History of the AOK Rheinland

AOK Rheinland was founded on April 1st, 1994 and was based in Düsseldorf. It emerged from the following 26 general local health insurance funds:

• AOK for the city of Aachen
• AOK for the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis
• AOK Bonn
• AOK Düren-Jülich
• AOK Düsseldorf
• AOK health insurance for Duisburg
• AOK food
• AOK health insurance for the Euskirchen district
• AOK Oberberg
• AOK Heinsberg
• AOK Erftkreis
• AOK for the Kleve district
• AOK Cologne
• AOK for Krefeld
• AOK Leverkusen
• AOK for the Mettmann district
• AOK Mülheim ad Ruhr
• AOK Neuss
• AOK Oberhausen
• AOK Remscheid
• AOK health insurance for the Wesel district
• AOK for the Rhein-Sieg district
• AOK Solingen
• AOK for the Aachen district
• AOK Wuppertal
• AOK Niederrhein (for Mönchengladbach and the district of Viersen )

Finances

Contribution rates

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. In 2015, it levied an income-related additional contribution of 0.9 percent of the contributory income. The additional contribution has been 1.1% since January 1, 2019.

Budget volume

The budget of the AOK is around 8.2 billion euros (as of 2014).

Web links

• Official website
• Early documents and newspaper articles on the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Hamburg in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Merger of AOK-Rhineland and AOK-Hamburg: Good for patients and contributors . Retrieved June 24, 2011.
2. ^ Statutes of the AOK Rheinland - Die Gesundheitskasse dated February 11, 1994
3. ↑ Ordinance on the Association of Local Health Insurance Funds in North Rhine-Westphalia into Two Local Health Insurance Funds Excerpt from the Law Gazette of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, No. 65/1993, p. 835
4. ↑ aok.de: Posts 2015 ( Memento from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ AOK-Die Gesundheitskasse: Contribution rates. September 22, 2015, accessed July 11, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 15.3 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 31.3"  E