Medical insurance card cash illegal

Medicare card cash illegal, as follows:

1, because the health insurance card is the state special for medical expenses, so the behavior of private cash health insurance card is illegal, is likely to face administrative penalties, and in serious cases will face criminal penalties;

2, the relevant people involved in the case will likely be involved in the fines, administrative detention, and other administrative penalties, the amount is huge or the situation is particularly serious or belonging to recidivism, may also be involved in accepting to criminal punishment. This is not just a question of detention or fines, 3 to 5 years, and fines. The same applies to the use of credit cards to cash in, if the bank or the public prosecutor and law enforcement system is aware of the relevant parties to carry a bad credit record ranging from 3-7 years, during this period of personal mortgage may be rejected by the bank or increase interest rates, can not be applied for the military or civil servants, commercial insurance was rejected or increase rates.

The process of reimbursement for medical treatment with a health insurance card is as follows:

1, first of all, when the participant goes to see a doctor, take the social security people to see the doctor, are prescribed a prescription to pay the fee.

2, the participant takes the registration form to the consultation department to see a doctor, the doctor gives the participant card to register at the registration desk.

3. After taking the prescription to the hospital's billing window, the insured person directly swipes the social security card and pays the medical expenses covered by the medical insurance fund.

4. If some drugs in the prescription are not covered by the medical insurance fund, the insured person has to pay cash out of pocket.

Summary of the above, the medical insurance card cash is illegal. This behavior constitutes the crime of fraud. The penalty for cash fraud is: fraudulent use of public or private property, the larger the amount, will be sentenced to less than three years of imprisonment, detention or control, and or a single fine.

Legal basis:

The Chinese People's **** and State Criminal Law Article 177

Obstructing credit card management crime of one of the following circumstances, obstructing credit card management, shall be sentenced to less than three years of fixed-term imprisonment or detention, and or a single fine of 10,000 yuan or more than 100,000 yuan; the quantity is huge or other serious circumstances, shall be sentenced to more than three years ten years of Imprisonment for a term of not more than three years or detention, and a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan:

(1) possessing or transporting credit cards knowing they are forged, or possessing or transporting blank credit cards knowing they are forged in large quantities;

(2) illegally possessing credit cards of other people in large quantities;

(3) fraudulently obtaining credit cards by using false proof of identity;

(d) selling, buying, or providing others with counterfeit credit cards or credit cards fraudulently obtained with false identification.