Beijing Municipal Health Insurance Handbook Blue Book

Medicare card number is not the card number of social security card, the two are not the same, social security payment of health insurance registration number, or called personal number, generally 12 digits. While the social security card using the national unified standard, social security number in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Social Insurance Law, the use of civil status numbers. From now on, the social security card will join the financial function, the national unity.

Medicare handbook numbers, also known as medicare card numbers, are unique numbers that the medicare system can use to identify a medicare participant. The handbook number can be obtained from the Beijing Health Insurance Handbook (Blue Handbook), while the card number is the information underneath the barcode in the Social Security Card.

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