IKK direct
IKK direct | |
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social insurance | Statutory health insurance |
Cash register type | Guild Health Insurance Fund |
legal form | Public corporation |
founding | February 1, 2003 |
resolution | December 31, 2008 |
Jurisdiction | Germany |
Administrative headquarters | Kiel |
Supervisory authority | Federal Insurance Office |
The IKK-Direkt , based in Kiel, was a German guild health insurance fund . As a health insurance company , it was a corporation under public law . It was founded on February 1, 2003 as "DGT-Direkt Gesundheitstechnik" on the initiative of the dental technicians' guilds Schleswig-Holstein and Bremen. In mid-2005 the name was changed from IKK-Direkkt - with a double k - to IKK-Direkt.
The IKK-Direkt was open nationwide and looked after 929,000 (as of April 2008) private and corporate customers. As a direct health insurance company, it did without a network of branches. Since it was founded, the contribution rates have mostly been below the average contribution rate in statutory health insurance (GKV) . On January 1st, 2009 the IKK-Direkt merged with the Techniker Krankenkasse . With a good 7.2 million customers, the largest health insurance company in Germany was created at the time. The name is still "Techniker Krankenkasse". With this, IKK-Direkt also changed the type of health insurance: the primary insurance became a substitute insurance .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Techniker and IKK-Direkt merge to form the largest health insurance company. In: Reuters . September 17, 2008, accessed November 18, 2018 .