Is the medical insurance card common throughout the province?

Can be generalized throughout the province. The new social security card is known as the social security card, social security card "through", refers to the social insurance information "through" with a card to facilitate the participants to query their own rights and interests at any time, anywhere in the record, convenient and fast to enjoy the social security services. On the other hand, this "through" is far from "through the world", but "through the local". The "through" - the cross-provincial and municipal social security "through" is still facing the difficult problem of the low level of coordination.

Medical insurance new participants issued cards as well as medical insurance card lost, damaged replacement card, all changed to apply for a new "social security card". During the replacement period, if there is an urgent need to use, the social security department will take the "temporary card" approach, before the official card has not been produced, the "temporary card" through the identification of the cardholder's legal identity, to support the cardholder's emergency access to medical care, purchase of medicines, and settlement of health insurance costs.

Unlike the old "medical insurance card", the social security card has four major functions: voucher function, cardholders use the card to handle personal labor security affairs, while supporting the card for medical treatment settlement, etc.; record function, recording the cardholder's labor security information and social insurance contributions, pension insurance individual account information, medical insurance individual account information, vocational qualifications and skills, employment experience, occupational injuries and occupational diseases and disabilities, etc.; financial function, recording the cardholder's labor security information and social insurance payment, information of individual pension insurance account, information of individual health insurance account, vocational qualifications and skills, employment experience, work injuries and occupational diseases and disabilities, etc. financial function, providing cardholders with the financial function of bank debit cards and completing the payment of social insurance and employment and re-employment preferential policies through the financial account of social security cards; query function, cardholders can query the professional information of individual labor security and social insurance in the labor security service centers of towns and streets.

Legal basis:

The People's Republic of China*** and the State Social Insurance Law

Article 28 Medical expenses that conform to the basic medical insurance drug directory, diagnostic and therapeutic items, and medical service facility standards, as well as those for emergencies and salvages, shall be paid out of the basic medical insurance fund in accordance with state regulations.

Article 29 The part of the medical expenses of the insured that should be paid by the basic medical insurance fund shall be settled directly between the social insurance administration organization and the medical institutions and drug business units.

The administrative departments of social insurance and the administrative departments of health shall establish a settlement system for medical expenses incurred for medical treatment in other places, so as to facilitate the enjoyment of basic medical insurance by insured persons.