Company

The group of companies under the umbrella of the Sympany Foundation comprises Sympany Holding AG and its five subsidiaries: Vivao Sympany AG, Moove Sympany AG, Kolping Krankenkasse AG, Sympany Versicherungen AG and Sympany Services AG.

Sympany publishes the main principles of its business. This creates transparency for all stakeholders, such as customers, partners and the public. With its Corporate Governance information, Sympany also complies with regulatory requirements on the disclosure of information in the Annual Report.

Sympany has around 257,100 private customers, some 204,500 of whom have basic insurance cover, all of them served by 575 employees. Sympany gives its policyholders a direct stake in its success: in 2020, CHF 27.5 million was allocated to the surplus fund.

Sympany is looking back at a successful 2020. The company’s profits amounted to CHF 68.8 million. Sympany allocated CHF 27.5 million of these to the surplus fund. With the surplus payment, Sympany allows its customers to share in the company’s success.

The history of Sympany and its predecessor ÖKK, founded in Basel 100 years ago, has been an eventful one, marked by change, dynamism and challenges, by tradition and by innovation.

Sympany is the only Swiss health insurer with a customer advisory council. It evaluates suggestions on document layout, gives feedback on the comprehensibility of information letters or contributes own new ideas