Can I buy a social security card at a pharmacy in a different place?

Social security card can't buy medicine in different places, only in the insured city. Although the social security card can't buy medicine in different places, it can be reimbursed in different places. If your participating place is Shanghai and you see a doctor in a Beijing hospital, you can be reimbursed, but there is a premise. Before seeing a doctor, you need to go to the social security bureau of the participating place for filing, and the hospital for seeing a doctor must be a designated medical institution.

The role of social security card:

(1) The social medical insurance card is used to record information related to residents' social security. Identify the cardholder's personal employment status, record the cardholder's social insurance account information, payment, professional skills, employment experience, work-related injuries, occupational diseases, degree of disability, etc.

(2) The social medical insurance card is used to record the basic information such as the name, ID number, date of birth, gender and household registration of the insured, and the cardholder's name, gender, citizenship number and other basic information on the card surface for easy viewing.

(three) social medical insurance card can be used to query the payment of pension insurance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance, work injury insurance and maternity insurance. Query the accumulated amount of endowment insurance and medical insurance.

(four) the cardholder can take the card to the designated hospital for medical treatment, to the designated pharmacy for medical insurance, and to settle the personal account for medical insurance. It is worth noting that the social medical insurance card of the insured residents can be swiped on the POS machine, but cash withdrawal or transfer is not allowed.

(5) If the insured is unemployed, he can go through the formalities of job registration and unemployment registration with the relevant departments, apply for unemployment insurance money and apply for employment training.

(6) The insured can handle social security affairs such as medical treatment, unemployment, pension, work injury and maternity, and receive social security affairs such as pension.

(seven) the insured individual can also apply for labor ability appraisal with the card and enjoy the treatment of work-related injury insurance.

(eight) the cardholder can also query the relevant information online with the social medical insurance card.

legal ground

People's Republic of China (PRC) social insurance law

Article 4 Employers and individuals who pay social insurance premiums according to law in People's Republic of China (PRC) have the right to inquire about payment records and personal rights and interests records, and ask social insurance agencies to provide social insurance consultation and other related services.

Individuals enjoy social insurance benefits according to law and have the right to supervise the payment of their own units.

Fifth people's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate social insurance into the national economic and social development plan.

The state raises social insurance funds through multiple channels. People's governments at or above the county level shall give necessary financial support to social insurance.

The state supports social insurance through preferential tax policies.