What is the Medicare E-Voucher? What is the use of the e-voucher?

The e-voucher is an electronic health insurance identity certificate generated for the participants based on their health insurance information. As long as a participant is enrolled in a health insurance program, he or she can receive the e-voucher and activate it for use, and the e-voucher can be used nationwide.

What is the use of the e-voucher?

One, the designated retail pharmacies to purchase drugs. When you go to a designated health insurance pharmacy to buy medicine, show the QR code of the health insurance e-voucher to the pharmacy, you can settle the bill directly, and you no longer need to worry about forgetting to bring the physical card.

The second is to visit a designated medical institution. When you need to register for consultation, pay for medicine, register for hospitalization, or settle for discharge, you can show the QR code of your health insurance e-voucher to the hospital to complete the verification and payment, which will greatly shorten the waiting time for consultation and settlement.

Three, medical insurance account inquiry. You can also check your personal health insurance account information, supported hospitals and pharmacies, health insurance payment records, consumption details and other services in real time, a cell phone to solve multiple problems.

Four, cross-provincial medical record. When you need to go outside the province for medical treatment, you can check the opening information of the cross-provincial medical care coordinating area online, and handle the cross-provincial medical care filing and other services without having to run the offline window.

Fifth, with family members tied to the medical insurance affinity account. The "national health insurance service platform" APP has officially launched the family account function, the insured person can help family members to apply for activation of health insurance electronic vouchers through the application. When family members need to see a doctor, they can take out their own cell phones and present the electronic vouchers of their relatives, so as to realize mobile payment for medical treatment and purchase of medicines.

What's the difference between an e-voucher and an e-social security card?

1. The issuer is different: the e-voucher is issued by the National Health Insurance Bureau; the e-social security card is issued by the National Social Security Bureau.

2. Different conditions for receiving: the electronic voucher of health insurance can be received as long as the user participates in the health insurance; the electronic social security card must be based on a physical card to activate and receive;

3. Different functions: the electronic voucher of health insurance can be realized to buy medicines in pharmacies and query the designated hospitals; the electronic social security card doesn't have the unique functions of electronic vouchers of health insurance.

Overall, the health insurance e-voucher compared to the health insurance card will be more convenient to use, and as long as the participants in the health insurance, you can receive the health insurance e-voucher and activate the use of health insurance e-vouchers and health insurance e-vouchers can be used nationwide.