Regional Health Insurance Fund

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Headquarters of the Vienna Health Insurance in Wienerbergstraße

The regional health insurance funds (GKK) were part of the statutory health insurance system in Austria alongside the other health insurance funds until 2019 . Each federal state had its own regional health insurance fund, with which the majority of the employed in the private sector and their relatives had health insurance. With the decrease in the number of civil servants, more and more people in employment from the public sector were also insured by the regional health insurance funds under private law contracts (colloquially also ASVG employees ). Only individual sectors such as railways and mining (belong together) had their own health insurance. In each case, the regional health insurance fund at which the workplace was located was responsible. For retirees, on the other hand, affiliation was based on their place of residence.

Like all other Austrian health insurance funds , they belonged to the main association of Austrian social insurance institutions .

Main building of the Styrian regional health insurance fund

The nine registers were:

Developments from 2018

The Council of Ministers decided to merge the regional health insurance funds into an Austrian health insurance fund on October 24, 2018.

On January 1, 2020, the nine regional health insurance funds were merged with the four company health insurance funds Kapfenberg, Mondi, Voestalpine Bahnsysteme and Zeltweg to form the Austrian Health Insurance Fund.

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Area Health Insurance Fund  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations