The medical association MEDECO is one of the largest associations of doctors and dentists in Germany. It is determined by self-employed action and thinking; exclusively committed to medicine and without policy interests and issues pursued by a particular profession.

The individual MEDECO locations are licensed hospitals, practice clinics and treatment centres. The clinics and practice clinics attached are autonomous medical and dental single practices which usually take on the form of a local practice association for the in-patient and out-patient care carried out by a clinic. The practice association and/or their individual members on the other hand are organised in local or regional MEDICO medical associations and/or professional associations.

There is differentiation between the members of a MEDECO Medical Association, namely between partners, junior partners and medical and dental assistants. These have joined up to ensure that uniform quality standards, regular training, further education and certification in specialised areas of medicine and dental medicine as well as professional and economic cooperation are observed. 

MEDECO service centre partners are exclusively doctors and dentists. They are the partners providing the capital for the MEDECO dental clinics and MEDECO Medical Associations and, in addition to their professional qualifications, have also assumed professional responsibility and competence. Junior partners are independently registered doctors in private practice with or without a partial equity stake.

Partners as well as junior partners operate their own, economically independent partner practices.