Helsana

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The company Helsana Ltd with headquarters in Dübendorf, is a Swiss insurance group specialising in health insurance. With over 1,53 million customers and premium volume of 9 billion Swiss francs, the Helsana Group is one of Switzerland’s leading health and accident insurers. The group of companies has roughly 3,700 employees and features a Swiss network of 13 general agencies and 27 sales offices. The company name Helsana is composed of the names of the former health insurance companies Helvetia and Artisana, which merged in 1996. In 1996, Helsana emerged from the merger of the two health and accident insurance companies, Helvetia and Artisana. The company’s roots can be traced back to the year 1899, which is when Helvetia was founded as a cooperative health insurance company. In 1971, Helvetia had over one million members, with more than 1,200 branches in German-speaking Switzerland, western Switzerland (first branch in Freiburg in 1903) and in Ticino (first branch in Bellinzona in 1906). Artisana, which was founded in Berne in 1952, developed over the course of decades – from an insurer specialising in daily allowance insurance for the construction industry to an all-rounder in the health insurance sector. In 1996, the delegates of Helvetia and Artisana resolved to merge into Helsana. In this regard, they followed a trend in the industry (in 1940 the number of health insurance companies in Switzerland was still 1,147, but in 1990 there were 246), but the merger was also seen as an important step in strengthening the competitive position of both insurance companies.