Visana
| Visana group
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| legal form | Foundation, endowment |
| founding | 1996 |
| Seat |
Bern , Switzerland
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| management | Angelo Eggli ( CEO ) Lorenz Hess (President) |
| Number of employees | 1'300 (2019) |
| sales | 3.3 billion CHF (2019) |
| Branch | Insurance |
| Website | www.visana.ch |
Visana , based in Bern, is a Swiss insurance group specializing in health insurance and accident insurance . The group of companies has around 827,000 privately insured people and 14,000 insured companies, authorities and associations. In 2019, the Visana Group with 1,300 employees at around 100 locations generated a premium volume of 3.3 billion Swiss francs with income of 196.4 million francs (previous year: 69.8 million).
Field of activity
The Visana Group is one of the largest Swiss health and accident insurers. It offers compulsory health care insurance in accordance with the Health Insurance Act KVG, additional and property insurance in accordance with the Insurance Contract Act VVG and accident insurance under the Accident Insurance Act UVG.
The company insures private customers (individuals and families) as well as corporate customers (companies, public institutions and associations). For the latter, it offers loss of earnings and accident insurance, among other things. It also includes household items. Building, personal liability and legal expenses insurance for the portfolio.
The Visana Group comprises eight companies. Visana AG, sana24 AG, vivacare AG and Galenos AG operate the mandatory health insurance and are subject to supervision by the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG). Visana Insurance Ltd operates the supplementary and accident insurance business and is subordinate to the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA).
Visana Services AG is the company's service company, where all employees are employed. The Visana Plus Foundation owns 100 percent of the share capital of Visana Beteiligungen AG. It also supports projects in health promotion and prevention.
history
The company emerged from the merger of the three health insurance funds KKB (founded in 1870), Grütli (founded in 1872) and Evidenzia (founded in 1990) in 1996 when the new health insurance law came into force .
In 1998, the company made headlines when it gave up basic insurance in eight cantons. In response to this, the Federal Department of Home Affairs announced that it would in future prevent “the example of Visana's withdrawal from basic insurance from setting a precedent in individual cantons.” On January 1, 2009, Visana resumed its activities as a basic insurer in all cantons and has been active throughout Switzerland ever since.
In 2006 Visana founded the two independent subsidiaries sana24 and vivacare. In autumn 2013, the three cash registers Visana, sana24 and vivacare were combined under the umbrella brand Visana. The takeover of Zürcher Versicherung Galenos took place in 2018.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Müller: Angelo Eggli is the new CEO of Visana. Press release. In: visana.ch. April 4, 2019, accessed September 25, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Visana in portrait. In: visana.ch, accessed on February 14, 2020.
- ^ Christoph Zürcher : Grütli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . March 20, 2007 , accessed November 13, 2018 .
- ^ Année politique Suisse. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
- ↑ 98.3376 - Interpellation. Consequences of the Visana debacle. In: parlament.ch. The Federal Assembly - The Swiss Parliament , December 18, 1998, accessed on November 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Press and information service: Health insurance: Visana does not have to cede any reserves - EDI wants a solution with ongoing KVG partial revision (1). Media release of March 18, 1999. (No longer available online.) In: bsv.admin.ch. Federal Department of Home Affairs, June 11, 2017, archived from the original on May 16, 2007 ; accessed on November 13, 2018 .