Zilveren Kruis (Silver Cross) is a Dutch health insurance company, based in

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...

, which was founded in 1949. It is part of the

Achmea Achmea Holding N.V. is one of the largest suppliers of financial services (mainly insurance) in the Netherlands. The company was formed by a merger of Zilveren Kruis and Avéro Centraal Beheer Groep on January 1, 1995. The roots of Achmea date ...

group which was created in 1995 when it merged with the Avéro-Centraal Beheer Group. The Ziekenhuis Sint Jansdal, in

Harderwijk Harderwijk (; Dutch Low Saxon: ) is a municipality and city of the Netherlands. It is served by the Harderwijk railway station. Its population centres are Harderwijk and Hierden. Harderwijk is on the western boundary of the Veluwe. The southea ...

, warned patients with the company's Basic Budget policy at the end of 2016 that their care was not covered after the bankruptcy of the MC IJsselmeer hospital in

Lelystad Lelystad () is a municipality and a city in the centre of the Netherlands, and it is the capital of the province of Flevoland. The city, built on reclaimed land, was founded in 1967 and was named after Cornelis Lely, who engineered the Afsluitdi ...

. In December 2018 Bruno Bruins announced that it had been agreed that they would be covered. It was warned by the

Dutch Healthcare Authority The Dutch Healthcare Authority (Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit) is an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, established by the Healthcare Market Regulation Act 2006. It is based in Utrecht and has more than 400 employees. It mon ...

in November 2018 about changes to policies introduced retrospectively in January 2018. In December 2018 more than a hundred general practitioners refused to renew their contracts with the company because of a dispute over rates and conditions.

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