Guild Health Insurance Fund Lower Saxony

Guild Health Insurance Fund Lower Saxony
social insurance	Statutory health insurance
Cash register type	Guild Health Insurance Fund
legal form	Public corporation
founding	April 1, 1996
resolution	March 31, 2010
Seat	Hanover
Insured	310,000
Website	www.ikk-niedersachsen.de

The Lower Saxony Guild Health Insurance Fund - short form IKK Lower Saxony - based in Hanover was founded on April 1, 1996 from 12 regional guild health insurance funds as a corporation under public law and was a German social security institution as a health guild health insurance fund .

Open to the whole of Germany, it maintained a network of branches with 46 locations in Lower Saxony. According to its own information, she looked after around 310,000 insured persons and 35,000 companies (as of May 19, 2007).

On April 1, 2010, it merged with the AOK Lower Saxony across all health insurance schemes .