Taxi State Association of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - An Offer with Consequences

Guido Sembach, the chairman of the state association for the taxi- and rental-car trades in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V., showed the members at the general meeting on 29 November 2025 in Roggentin the dumping offer by the health insurance funds for the reimbursement of medical transports.

Of course, insured persons are happy to be transported as ordinary passengers in taxis according to the applicable taxi tariff, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Association says. | Photo: Planetfox, pixabay
Of course, insured persons are happy to be transported as ordinary passengers in taxis according to the applicable taxi tariff, the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern State Association says. | Photo: Planetfox, pixabay

Sembach said: "I wouldn't dare show you this offer," as he spoke to the members. The health insurance funds such as AOK, Barmer and IKK did not address the drastic decline of taxi companies in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at all. 500 companies and thus 60 percent of the industry have had to close their businesses since the year 2000. In the negotiations, the association presented the funds with various possible solutions to continue ensuring the provision of care for their insured. When asked how important the continuity of care for their insured was to the funds, the fund representatives only said: "We have the legal obligation."

The general meeting declared the negotiations a failure after this dumping offer. Several outraged members could not believe that AOK, Barmer, IKK, etc. did not at all base their offer on the association's proposed solutions.

Thus, the association at first assumes that as of January 1, 2026 there will be shortages in patient transport services.

The contractual relationship between the health insurance funds and the association rests solely on remuneration and billing, when taxi- and rental-car operators accept a transport voucher from insured persons. Thus there is no obligation to transport patients for taxi- and rental-car companies!

Of course, insured persons are happy to be transported as ordinary passengers in taxis according to the applicable taxi tariff schedule. The meter fare to be paid can then be claimed by the insured from the health insurance funds.

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