Shanghai social security card to go to the pharmacy can only buy designated drugs?

It doesn't affect hospital outpatient services, but only stops the card settlement function of the social security card in the designated pharmacy

But for the insured person in the designated pharmacy to purchase drugs more than 6 times or more than 800 yuan per natural month, the medical insurance department will stop the card settlement function of the social security card in the designated pharmacy, and audit the situation of its purchase of drugs, and according to the results of the audit, the corresponding treatment. If you are suspected of committing a crime, you will be transferred to the public security organs according to the law.

At present, there are 243 designated pharmacies for medical insurance in Shanghai, and insured persons can use their social security cards to purchase non-prescription medicines within the scope of medical insurance at designated pharmacies, which makes it convenient to purchase medicines close to their homes when they suffer from minor ailments. However, the health insurance department found in the law enforcement, there are a small number of illegal acquisition of drugs to collect the social security card of the participants, to the designated pharmacies to buy drugs, and according to a certain percentage of the amount of drugs returned to the participants, from which illegal profit, damage to the legitimate rights and interests of the participants, resulting in the loss of health insurance fund. At the same time, there are also individual participants in the short term in the designated pharmacies to repeat the purchase of drugs, a large number of drugs, resulting in a waste of health insurance funds.

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