axcount generics for around 40 million insured people
22.04.2010 17:34
axcount Generika AG is the new discount agreement partner of 68 company health insurance companies
From March 1, 2010, axcount Generika AG is a discount contract partner of 68 company health insurance companies for two years, bundled via spectrum|K. With around 7.3 million insured people from the company health insurance companies involved in the tender, as well as BIG-Direkt and the umbrella association of agricultural social insurance, the number of insured people that axcount reaches with generic discount contract products increases to almost 40 million. In the spectrum|K tender, axcount received contracts for the active ingredients metformin, amoxicillin, metoprolol and simvastatin.
With Metformin, axcount has once again gained one of the key active ingredients in the treatment of metabolic syndrome in this discount agreement. “We are pleased that as a medium-sized pharmaceutical company we will be able to supply around 80 percent of all statutory health insurance companies with Metformin axcount from March 1st, 2010,” commented axcount board members Dirk Ullrich and Dr. in Friedrichsdorf, Hesse. Dieter Steinbach's recent success. axcount health insurance manager Henning Hoffmeyer also emphasizes that axcount has once again asserted itself against well-known national and international generic companies in this current tender and will once again prove its reliability as a discount contract partner.
“The conclusion of further discount agreements and the associated supply of axcount generics to the insured are important steps so that we can continue our positive development in the coming years,” say Ullrich and Steinbach. In keeping with the health care reform, axcount Generika AG is continually striving to expand its discount contract partnerships with health insurance companies. In addition to the nationwide exclusive AOK discount agreement for all potencies and essential pack sizes of the active ingredient Metformin, there are also discount agreements with IKK Gesund Plus and IKK Classic. Since 2008, axcount has been a discount contract partner for the 34 member funds of GWQ ServicePlus AG with around 6 million insured people. This agreement covers the entire axcount prescription range.