Health and Accident Welfare Institution
Health care institutions (KFA) as well as health and accident care institutions in Austria are institutions in the area of the federal states and municipalities that perform health and accident insurance tasks. These institutions are not social insurance carriers and do not belong to the umbrella organization of social insurance carriers . Its constitutional legal basis is not Article 10, Paragraph 1, Item 11 B-VG (social and contract insurance), but Article 21, Paragraph 1 of the B-VG (service law).
Before the establishment of the Insurance Company for Public Employees (now Insurance Company for Public Employees, Railways and Mining ) in 1967 (entry into force of the Civil Service Health and Accident Insurance Act - B-KUVG, Federal Law Gazette No. 200/1967 ), federal employees were the federal employees through the health insurance company , but not the state and municipal officials included in the Austrian social insurance. For this reason, the states and municipalities, in their function as employers, have in some cases created their own institutions with different levels of performance. With the B-KUVG , the federal government , which is exclusively responsible for social insurance, now stipulates that state and local officials should also be included in social insurance. § 2 and § 3 , however, B-KUVG provide that officials of the countries and communities remain sickness and accident insurance free if the employer provides an equivalent to the statutory health and accident insurance supply. As a result of the B-KUVG, the states have made regulations to ensure the equivalence required by the federal government.
From the end of the 1990s were gradually also been the General Social Security Law imputed contract staff publicly involved in the responsibility of the insurance company staff and the (still called) officials-health and accident insurance law assumed ( BGBl. I no. 10/1999 , BGBl. I No. 102/2001 ). The exemption provisions of the B-KUVG with regard to health and accident welfare institutions thus also applied to the area of contract employees.
On this basis, there are now 15 health and accident welfare institutions for civil servants and contract employees at state and municipal level, which are responsible for around 200,000 insured persons.
List of health care institutions
- Health Care Institution of the City of Vienna ( Website )
- Health care for the civil servants of the municipality of Baden
- Medical care for the officials of the state capital Linz
- Health and accident care for Upper Austria. Municipalities (KFG) ( website )
- Health and accident care for Upper Austria. State officials ( website )
- Upper Austrian Teacher Sickness and Accident Welfare ( website )
- Health care institution for civil servants of the Steyr magistrate
- Medical care for the officials of the city of Wels
- Sick care institution for civil servants in the provincial capital Graz ( website )
- Health care institution of the city officials of Villach ( website )
- Health care institution of the municipal officials of the state capital Salzburg ( website )
- Health and accident care of the Tyrolean state teachers
- Health and accident care of the Tyrolean state officials
- Health and accident care of the Tyrolean municipal officials
- Health care facility of officials of the municipality of Hallein ( website )
The health care institution of the civil servants of the state capital Bregenz has already been dissolved.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See for example the committee report on the O. ö. Municipality Accident Welfare Act. Retrieved August 24, 2020 .
- ↑ No light in the darkness of the "luxury health insurance funds". Wiener Zeitung, accessed on June 3, 2020 .