How to activate the medical insurance card

Legal analysis: Social security card includes two accounts, social security account and financial account, which need to be activated separately: 1. Social security account number: 1) Residents can apply for a new card by themselves, and when they get the card from the Social Security Bureau, they can ask the staff to activate the business and set the password; 2) On-the-job employees can directly dial 12333 customer service phone to complete activation and password setting; 3) Enter the initial password of the social security card to activate when seeing a doctor or buying medicine in a designated social security hospital or pharmacy. 2. Financial account. Bring a valid personal id to the bank for activation, and you need to provide a mobile phone verification code.

Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Social Insurance Law.

Article 2 The state establishes social insurance systems such as basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance and maternity insurance, so as to guarantee citizens' right to receive material assistance from the state and society in accordance with the law in case of old age, illness, industrial injury, unemployment and maternity.

Twenty-sixth basic medical insurance for employees, new rural cooperative medical care and basic medical insurance for urban residents shall be implemented in accordance with state regulations.

Twenty-eighth medical expenses that meet the basic medical insurance drug list, diagnosis and treatment items, medical service facilities standards and emergency treatment and rescue shall be paid by the basic medical insurance fund in accordance with state regulations.