Is the medical insurance number the same as the social security number?

Medical insurance number and social security number are not the same thing. \x0d\ social security number is a unique number given to each insured person according to the unified national standards of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. \x0d\ and the medical insurance number is the unique number that the medical insurance agency gives to the insured individual or insured person in the overall planning area every time. The insured has been insured for many times and may have multiple medical insurance numbers; If you change the overall planning area and go to other agencies to participate in insurance, you will have a new medical insurance number, but his social security number will remain unchanged for life. Different medical insurance agencies and different insured persons may have the same insurance number, but the social security number is different. \x0d\ Simply put, the social security number follows people, which is valid nationwide and for life; The medical insurance number is only valid for the insured person to join the insurance in a certain place, and it is invalid if the insurance is changed or terminated in another place. But it is not excluded that some places directly use the social security number as the medical insurance number.