Can Nucleic Acid Tests Be Reimbursed by Medicare

Nucleic acid test can be reimbursed by medical insurance. Participate in the basic health insurance for urban workers, in the health insurance designated hospital test, and health insurance personal account balance is sufficient, is able to brush the health insurance card to pay to pay for the cost of nucleic acid test, but the registration fee will have to bear their own. If you do the nucleic acid test outside the country and the social security you bought is not in the city where the nucleic acid test is done, then you need to take the nucleic acid receipt to prove that you will be reimbursed back to your local city. Because, now there are some cities that do not allow health insurance cards to be used outside the city.

Legal basis:

The People's Republic of China Social Insurance Law

Article 2: The State establishes a social insurance system for basic old-age pension insurance, basic medical insurance, industrial injury insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance, and other social insurance systems, and guarantees the right of citizens to obtain material assistance from the State and society according to the law in the event of old age, sickness, industrial injury, unemployment, or maternity. and society in the event of old age, sickness, industrial injury, unemployment or maternity, in accordance with the law.

Article 26: The standards of treatment for basic medical insurance for employees, new rural cooperative medical care and basic medical insurance for urban residents shall be implemented in accordance with the provisions of the State.

Article 28 Medical expenses that conform to the basic medical insurance drug catalog, diagnostic and therapeutic items, standards of medical service facilities, as well as emergency and rescue medical expenses shall be paid out of the basic medical insurance fund in accordance with the state regulations.