Can the foreign province medical insurance card can be used across provinces

Foreign medical insurance card can be used across provinces, but need to apply for relevant procedures.

Participants can go to the local social security bureau with their ID cards and social security cards to apply for the transfer of social security cards, or through the online platform for the record, and then you can use the card in the designated hospitals across the province. If you only use the medical insurance card to buy drugs in pharmacies outside the province, you can not go through the medical insurance record in advance, after all, the funds in the medical insurance card is the employee's own contribution, even if the employee's medical insurance payment is cut off, you can also buy drugs, but can not be reimbursed by the medical insurance. It is important to note that the amount of savings in the medical insurance card can not be used across the province.

Medicare card can buy drugs at off-site pharmacies

The possibility of purchasing drugs off-site with a medical insurance card depends on a few factors:

1. Whether or not the participant's location opens up the function of networking with off-site pharmacies.

2. Whether the policy of the participant's location requires filing.

3, whether the pharmacy is a medical insurance personal account direct network settlement directory list of designated institutions.

4, the foreign social security system does not have the participant's specific information on insurance contributions, then it is not possible to buy drugs in a different place. The urban medical insurance purchased by urban residents or the rural cooperative medical insurance purchased by rural residents requires a written application from the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of the place of participation and the record is approved before it can be used for overseas medical treatment, and generally cannot be used to buy drugs overseas.

To sum up: medical insurance card to buy drugs, or out of town, generally only to designated hospitals or outpatient clinics, and need to bring their own personal ID card and medical insurance card, when discharged from the hospital in the hospital medical insurance clearinghouse or fee center for medical insurance settlement can be.

Legal basis

The People's Republic of China Social Insurance Law

Article 29

The portion of the medical expenses of the insured person that should be paid by the basic medical insurance fund shall be settled directly by the social insurance administration organization with the medical institutions and the pharmaceutical 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.