BKK advita from 2012 without additional contribution

Health insurance BKK advita waived from April 2012 on the additional contribution

12/21/2011

The statutory health insurance companies will end this year with a clear surplus. Although the hoped-for reductions in the general contribution rate for the insured remain, nevertheless, at least no new additional contributions are levied and several health insurance companies have even decided to cancel their previous additional contribution.

40,000 insured persons benefit from the waiver of additional contributions
As reported by the "Ärzte Zeitung", the BKK advita „as one of the last statutory health insurance companies“ Determined not to raise its previous additional contribution of € 6.50 per month from the first of April 2012. A decision of the board of BKK advita was announced earlier this week. According to the Board of Directors, the health insurances are expecting a significant income surplus in 2011 and also in the coming year. However, the abolition of the additional contribution still has to be approved by the Federal Insurance Office. The health insurance company has about 43,000 members and looks after more than 5,000 corporate clients. The BKK advita is according to the „Doctors newspaper“ closely associated with their former owners, who today act as partner companies, and looks after a large number of insured persons at Schott AG, Carl Zeiss AG, KSB AG and Zwiesel Kristallglas.

Abolition of the additional contribution fixes competitive disadvantage of the health insurance companies
The abolition of the additional contribution to several statutory health insurance remedies a competitive disadvantage that has brought the affected health insurance in recent years, significant membership losses. Thus, since the introduction of the additional contribution about ten percent of the statutory health insurance, have changed from an insurance with additional contribution to a health insurance without additional contribution. The corresponding loss of members was also one of the reasons for the bankruptcy of the City BKK in the summer of this year and the announced closure of the BKK for health professionals. (Fp)

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