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The commercial health insurance company - KKH insures as fourth largest private health insurance fund approximately 1.9 million humans. With a total volume of the budget of 4 billion " in the year 2006 the KKH ranks among the high performance carrier inside the legal health insurance in the Federal Republic of Germany. The KKH is a body of the public right, which is led by a full-time executive committee. The executive committee consists both of Ingo Kailuweit (chairman) and Rudolf Hauke, at the seat of the head office in Hanover. To the honorary board of directors, 30 persons belong to the insuring parliament, which is selected every 6 years in the social choice alone by the members of the KKH. Klaus Balzer from damp is a chairman and Erich Balser from remote forest stv. Chairman of the board of directors. The commercial one is member in the federation of the employee health insurance schemes (Association of Employee's Health Insurance Comp).
Approximately 4,150 woman employees worry in Home Offices, service centers, regional authority centers and in the head office by 1.4 million contribution-paying members and 500,000 relatives. The rate of contribution amounts to since 1 July 2005 13.2%. It is to be applied from employee and employer to the height of the contribution assessment limit. Additionally the members pay an auxiliary contribution of 0,9% since 1 July 2005, as with all health insurance companies.
The KKH created Saale" on 10. March 1890 in resounds/to Saale as written benevolent fund under the name "ill and funeral cash of the commercial association too resounds/. Forerunner was the 1862 of buyer assistants created commercial association. With the entry into force of the RVO on 1 January 1914 the KKH became certified as private health insurance fund. Changed in 1 April 1926 the name into "commercial health insurance company resounds (Saale) to private health insurance fund V.V.a.G". 1934 shifted the cash their seat to Berlin. To 1 January 1936 persons subject to compulsory insurance of members did not have to be separated from the private health insurance funds. It transferred of the KKH into those created "resounding ash health insurance V.V.a.G. Berlin" again, which belongs today after a fusion 1975 with the national health insurance association as "resound-ash-national health insurance AG" to the private health insurances. After the Second World War in the long run Hanover became new seat of the KKH. The cash had lost two thirds of its members (in east and Central Germany) by the war. 1953 took place the first social choice. The KKH completely particularly received important growth thrusts by the permission from health insurance companies in West Berlin (1958) and in the Saarland (1960) and by the reunification of Germany 1990. Since 1 January 1995 the nursing care insurance for with the KKH ill-insured persons by a "care cash with the KKH" is accomplished. Until 1995 the circle of acquaintances of the commercial ones was on "employees in commercial and related occupations", i.e. does not limit to employees profit-oriented = state-direct enterprises. Since all persons of the commercial ones may join the freedom of election 1996, if they did not lock for the legal health insurance by choice of a private health insurance. The commercial one follows to referring to failure in the health service since November 2001 (as the first country widely active health insurance company) with a test group Abrechungsmanipulation aimed.
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