Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Office of Public Health FOPH Health and Accident Insurance Division Federal Office of Public Health, Insurance Supervision Division, August 2018 Reimbursement of excessive premiums Article 17 of the Federal Act on the Oversight of Social Health Insurance (Health Insurance Oversight Act HIOA; SR 832.12) governs the reimbursement of excessive income from insurance premiums. In- surers can apply to the FOPH for permission to reimburse income from a particular canton if this signif- icantly exceeds the accumulated annual costs in that canton. During the 2017 financial year, three insurers applied to the FOPH for permission to reimburse excessive income from premiums in the cantons listed below: Genossenschaft Glarner Krankenversicherung in the canton of Glarus (GL) Kranken- und Unfallkasse Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz (SZ) Vivao Sympany AG in the cantons of Aargau (AG), Bern (BE), Basel-Landschaft (BL), Basel- Stadt (BS), Fribourg (FR), Lucerne (LU) and Solothurn (SO) In its ruling of 8 August 2018, the FOPH approved Genossenschaft Glarner Krankenversicherung’s ap- plication as follows: Canton of Glarus: Reimbursement of CHF 80.03 per insured person Everyone insured by Genossenschaft Glarner Krankenversicherung in the above-mentioned canton on 31 December 2017 will be reimbursed the relevant amount before the end of 2018. In its ruling of 8 August 2018, the FOPH approved Kranken- und Unfallkasse Einsiedeln’s application as follows: Canton of Schwyz: Reimbursement of CHF 130 per insured person Everyone insured by Kranken- und Unfallkasse Einsiedeln in the above-mentioned canton on 31 De- cember 2017 will be reimbursed the relevant amount before the end of 2018. In its ruling of 8 August 2018, the FOPH approved Vivao Sympany AG’s application as follows: Canton of Aargau: Reimbursement of CHF 170 per insured person Canton of Berne: Reimbursement of CHF 50 per insured person Canton of Basel-Landschaft: Reimbursement of CHF 190 per insured person Canton of Basel-Stadt: Reimbursement of CHF 190 per insured person Canton of Fribourg Reimbursement of CHF 180 per insured person Canton of Lucerne Reimbursement of CHF 210 per insured person Canton of Solothurn Reimbursement of CHF 370 per insured person Everyone insured by Vivao Sympany AG in the seven above-mentioned cantons on 31 December 2017 will be reimbursed the relevant amount before the end of 2018. 2/2 .