The company's purpose as a health insurance company is to operate social health insurance based on the principle of mutuality in accordance with the Federal Act on Health Insurance (KVG) of March 18, 1994, and the implementing ordinances. The company may operate reinsurance business within the meaning of Article 28 of the Federal Act on Supervision of Social Health Insurance (KVAG) of September 26, 2014, and the implementing ordinance. The company may promote measures to prevent illness, accident, disability, and death. The company may offer administrative services and, subject to compliance with the relevant legal and regulatory framework conditions, other insurance branches or medical services within the scope of its insurance business. The company may acquire, participate in, or establish branches of similar or similar companies within the framework of the legal and regulatory framework conditions. It may merge with such companies, acquire or dispose of real estate, and enter into all transactions and conclude contracts that are suitable to promote the purpose of the company or are directly or indirectly related to it. The company may grant loans or other financing to its direct or indirect parent companies and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide security of all kinds for liabilities of such other companies, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, against payment.