IKK direct

IKK direct
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

1. ↑ Techniker and IKK-Direkt merge to form the largest health insurance company. In: Reuters . September 17, 2008, accessed November 18, 2018 .