Does it matter if I buy medicine for the elderly with my medical insurance card?

It doesn't matter if you buy medicine for the elderly with a medical insurance card.

The medical insurance card can be used to pay the medical expenses incurred by the insured and their spouses, parents and children in designated medical institutions, as well as the expenses incurred by individuals in purchasing medicines, medical devices and medical consumables in designated retail pharmacies. Personal accounts are used for the personal contributions of spouses, parents and children to participate in the basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents.

The scope of application of medical insurance mutual assistance, the person being helped is employee medical insurance, and the medical expenses incurred by individuals in outpatient, inpatient or pharmacy of designated medical institutions can be used. If freemasonry is residents' medical insurance or the new rural cooperative medical system, the medical expenses incurred by individuals in hospitalization or outpatient service in designated medical institutions can be used, but not in designated pharmacies.

Matters needing attention in the use of medical insurance card:

1. When the money in the medical insurance card is used to buy medicine, it will be directly deducted from the medical insurance card. If there is enough money in the card, there is no need to pay cash. It's not a discount card like a membership card.

2. Hospitalization or drug purchase Not all medical care and drugs can be paid by medical insurance card, which depends on the local medical insurance catalogue. The purchased drugs and medical treatment items must be in the local medical insurance catalogue before they can be paid by medical insurance card.

3. Whether to enter the drugs or medical treatment items in the local medical insurance catalogue can be queried on the website of the local social security center or on the touch screen of the lobby of a large-scale regular non-profit hospital.