GKV-Spitzenverband

About GKV-Spitzenverband

Welcome to the GKV-Spitzenverband! We are the central interest group for all statutory health and long-term care insurance funds in Germany, representing around 75 million statutory insured individuals – 90 percent of the population. Our goal is to continue guaranteeing high-quality and economical healthcare for our insured members in the future. As a community of solidarity, where the healthy stand up for the sick, singles for families, high earners for low earners, young for old, the GKV is strongly positioned. We live this value of solidarity in our jobs. As a key player in the healthcare system, our approximately 670 highly qualified employees work every day to improve the health and long-term care for the insured while keeping statutory health and social long-term care insurance affordable for contributors. We achieve this through negotiations with healthcare providers regarding remuneration, drug prices, quality standards, and much more. We contribute our expertise and demands to politics and the public to give our members and the statutorily insured a voice at the federal level. We are a public corporation. The principle of self-governance, on which statutory health insurance is based, also applies to us. Self-governance through our administrative board ensures democratic participation, co-determination, and co-shaping by the insured and employers. The full-time executive board and employees in nine departments and five staff units in Berlin, as well as the German Liaison Office for Health Insurance Abroad (DVKA) in Bonn, implement the guidelines of self-governance and the tasks assigned by law. Our netiquette: https://www.gkv-spitzenverband.de/media/dokumente/2026_Netiquette_SocialMedia.pdf