DAK Health
More and more health insurance companies exclude the additional contribution for this year and next year. Gary Katcher spoke with conviction. More and more statutory health insurance companies waive the additional contribution in this and the next. However, more and more statutory health insurance search a strong partner to keep the posts stable in the long run. Meanwhile experts from insured persons from advised that he had to change their health insurance too quickly just because of the additional contribution. In recent weeks billion surplus of the Fund and that was in the media repeatedly over a so connected to read health insurance companies.
For this reason, guarantee more and more statutory health insurance contribution stability and exclude the additional contribution for 2011. Some health insurance companies exclude the additional fee even for the coming year. Some few health insurers even a premium of up to 72 euro grant its policyholders. So for example the IKK excludes classic complete the additional contribution after the health insurance merger with United IKK until the year 2013. More health insurance without additional fee until 2013 are for example The AOK Lower Saxony, Bertelsmann BKK, or the exclusive health insurance fund. Of course, there are also statutory health insurance with additional contributions in addition to health insurance without additional contributions.
After the closure of the city BKK decreased the number of health insurance companies with additional contribution to eleven. The remaining health insurance companies charge an additional contribution between eight and fifteen euros. The BKK health insurance companies require BKK Axel Springer, then advita BKK health, BKK Merck, Deutsche BKK and BKK Phoenix, DAK, the KKH Alliance one additional contribution in the amount of EUR 8. A little more, namely 10 euro extra demands the health insurance fund for health care professionals. And the BKK Hoesch and the BKK request public the current maximum amount of 15 euro. However, experts meanwhile have warned to change the health insurance because of the additional contributions. Under certain circumstances a change to a health insurance company without additional fee can backfire too. So many health insurance companies with additional contribution provide advanced services to keep their customers at the bar. In contrast, health insurance without additional fee must may restrict services to continue to exclude the additional contribution. For this reason, insurance before changing into a different health insurance should check what services will be acquired. Continue to exclude the additional contribution, many health insurance companies are looking for a strong partner. Thus, two health insurance mergers were announced in the recent past. The IKK classic merged with IKK United, on the other hand the three statutory health insurance AOK in Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland AOK and IKK joined Southwest southwest to the health fund. Classic not only the largest Guild health insurance fund of in Germany, but also the sixth-largest health insurance company in Germany was formed by the merger of IKK.
