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29.07.2010 08:51

New forces in the management and supervisory board of the private health insurance association

MEDICPROOF, the subsidiary of the PKV Association for medical reports, is facing a significant expansion of its tasks. In the future, the company will also carry out quality inspections of care facilities, for which a new department is currently being set up. In the future, MEDICPROOF will inspect around 10 percent of the care facilities in Germany, depending on the proportion of privately insured people in the population. With this step, the PKV Association is continuing its independent course in terms of care quality, which began with the founding of the Compass care consultation and the “Center for Quality in Care” foundation.

To date, MEDICPROOF has primarily dealt with determining the need for care of privately insured people and assigning them to a care level. This makes the Cologne-based company the counterpart to the medical service of the statutory health insurance (MDK) when it comes to long-term care insurance. MEDICPROOF currently works with almost 900 freelance medical experts and nursing specialists nationwide.

The expansion of MEDICPROOF's tasks is accompanied by a new management structure and the establishment of a supervisory board. In June 2010, Dr. Ulrike Diedrich took over the management of MEDICPROOF GmbH. She is a licensed doctor and “Master of Public Health” (MPH). Diedrich has been a member of the MEDICPROOF management since 2003.

The Supervisory Board is composed of:

Dr. Karl Josef Bierth,
Board member of SIGNAL health insurance a. G, Dortmund and
of the Deutscher Ring Krankenversicherungsverein a. G., Hamburg;

Dr. Volker Leienbach,
Director of the Association of Private Health Insurance, Cologne;

Thomas Michels,
Member of the board of AXA Krankenversicherung AG, Cologne.

08.07.2010