Assura
| Assura, health and accident insurance
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| legal form | Foundation, endowment |
| founding | 1978 |
| Seat | Pully , Switzerland |
| Number of employees | approx. 1'200 |
| sales | CHF 3.0 billion (basic insurance 2017), CHF 400 million (additional insurance 2017) |
| Branch | Insurance |
| Website | de.assura.ch/ |
| As of June 19, 2018 | |
The Assura based in Pully is the medical insurance specialist Swiss insurance company . It has around 1,102,000 policyholders and achieved premium income of 3.4 billion Swiss francs in 2017. The core business of Assura is basic insurance according to the Health Insurance Act as well as supplementary insurance.
history
The company was founded in 1978 in the legal form of a foundation in Pully and initially had 8 employees and 430 insured persons. At the end of the 1980s, Assura opened branches in Geneva (1987), Neuchâtel (1988) and Freiburg (1989). With the opening of a branch in St. Gallen in 1993, Assura expanded into German-speaking Switzerland for the first time. This was followed by further branches in Zurich (1994), Bern (1995), Basel, Lucerne and Ticino (1996). In 2001 Assura SA was founded for the business area of supplementary insurance.
In November 2012, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority placed Assura SA together with other companies in the same group under group supervision, suspended the boards of directors of the companies and appointed a representative as a body.
The Assura in numbers
- 999,000 insured persons (basic insurance)
- 503,000 insured persons (additional insurance)
- 1,238 employees in the branches and at the headquarters
- 16 branches throughout Switzerland
- 1978: Foundation of the Assura
- 1989: Foundation of Assura SA for the sale of supplementary insurance according to VVG
- 2018: According to its own statements, Assura Basis exceeds the mark of 1 million insured persons according to KVG in the course of its 40th anniversary
Boycott by the medical profession
Numerous doctors in the Argomed network refused to accept new patients in 2013 if they were insured with Assura. In 2015, however, Assura concluded managed care contracts with Argomed networks, initially in the cantons of Aargau, Solothurn and Lucerne.
Web links
- Website Assura
- How the health insurance company Assura rausekelt pregnant women and the sick watson, 11 September 2015
- The Gesundenkasse tagesanzeiger.ch, May 8, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Assura: Annual Report 2017. (PDF) Assura, May 2018, accessed on June 19, 2018 .
- ↑ FINMA's precautionary measures at the Divesa Group
- ↑ No to Assura ( Memento of the original from October 11, 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.
- ↑ Doctors reject Assura patients
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2015 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.
